You NEVER PRESERVED APPLES like this!?! OFF GRID | HOMESTEADING 

I'm not on social media except You Tube. Can I enter the competition if I share by email? Also I'm in the UK - do I still qualify?

A Stacy one time I made some homemade pancakes I use baking soda instead of baking powder my pancakes for flat and thin and my first Pancake I realize I screwed up LOL yeah we all make mistakes LOL

Yeah I totally went through all the stuff on social media, and Homestead with Doug and Stacy it's something you feel good about sharing with family and friends and I've went through a lot of social media lot of things on RU-vid and you guys are solid lot of love for you and I'm going to keep sharing your videos and truthfully I'm going to try to get my brother to register if because if I was the win a Log Cabin I'm going to give it to my brother sister law and niece

Signed up ❤️

@@JesusChristIsComeInTheFlesh if you look at the rules it says: *No Purchase Necessary - OFFER ONLY VALID IN LOWER 48 U S A (continental usa)

Hey, I'm in Oregon, too. Where are you located? I'm in Hood River, and several orchards here use trellises for pear trees.

Thank you for the excellent advice...!!! ♡

That must have been a wonderful childhood. You are full of information... so you evidently learned a lot, learned a good work ethic .. hope you have some great memories.

Did you make Apple Brandy it is made in Normandy in France. Good wishes from Ireland plenty of apples but the ravens, crows damage a lot

Never heard of any of those varieties! WOW..Lya gotta love apples!

Indeed!

Ditto.

Thank you fr ll you share.

he is truly Christian as is Stacy...it exudes from them!!

Happy wife, happy life! lol

That is a lovely story

Thanks!! The Hangs' orchard had peaches, cherries, plums, and several varieties of apples, all were standard size fruit trees. Also concord grapes, which she gave me the plants because they were inside her backyard fence and she wanted them moved out.. A disease killed the remaining grape vines on both properties about 10 years ago. The only tree left is a Seckel (sp?) PearTree that no longer produces fruit, the second tree was blown over in a storm. Those pears were so good😋 Mrs. Hangs also introduced me to a Steam Juicer. This Juicer is just as important to me as my pressure and water bath canners. The Steam Juicer is available on Amazon. In 1975 my Mom and i both had to order ours from a company in Germany. Mrs. Hangs had purchased hers from them also. I dearly loved and respected that sweet German Lady, 🥰

I actually took a few cuttings from the Concord Grape Vines. I did as I had seen my Grandparents do. Put the cuttings into the soil past were a leave had been and then put a quart size Canning Jar over it and let Mother Nature take it's course, they all rooted and grew into beautiful producing plants 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇 Using my Steam Juicer I made organic grape juice for our family and jelly. I also made concord grape pies.😋🥰 One year I didn't have time to make up the pie filling to freeze, I just washed the grapes, pulled them off of the stems, threw them into 1qt Ball Plastic Freezer Containers and tossed them into the freezer. I pulled one out to make a pie, our 2 youngest sons got a frozen grape and ate it. They loved it, actually we all did 😋 from then on in the evenings this was a routine healthy snack while watching TV. The 2 boys laid in the floor eating the grapes, they were so cute. Needless to say we had very few pies that year. My Grandfather was born in Germany in1877, at 6 weeks of age his parents immigrated to the USA 🇺🇸 as and became Citizens. My Grandfather fought in the 6th Calvary and was gassed in France by the Germans. He had breathing problems for the rest of his life. My Grandmother's ancestors came to America in 1722 from England. Our ancestor, Nicholas Woodfin fought in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. A member of our family has fought in every War the USA has been in. God Bless America 👍🥰🙏🇺🇸

@@glendavertner8906 Thanks for sharing some of your story and family history. It's very interesting and lovely to imagine what it was like. Mrs. Hangs' fruit tree orchard sounds like heaven! I'm sure it was a great learning experience and obviously a wonderful memory.

@@darlingusa2pettee57 Mrs. Hangs tought me so much about gardening and canning. We didn't have You Tube back then. She died many years ago, I still miss that wonderful woman in my life. She was a true blessing to me.

Sounds lovely 🥰

All the pretty apples in the store you new something was wrong impossible to be pretty and tasty

That's what's wrong with commercial grown food and produce... it's all about the produce looking "pretty" on the shelves/bins. Because they know that's what people will buy. They sell produce that's "big" and "pretty" to look at.... and the heck with flavor, nutrition and quality.

Just love the love between you two.Blessings

Just do it

I wish it for my husband and I too but our backs couldn't handle it.

Its sad how they teach one way but in real life they dont do what they teach... i never got in trouble for showering someone who badly needed one when it wasnt their day... but then when i did bath aide i did have to pick up extras to play catch up from other people fallimg behind or from people calling in so often it was bath aide pulled to do other things... cuz one nursing assistant had anywhere between 12 to 18 people to care sometimes during a shift with most being needing full assistance... you work like a robot going as fast as you can as as safely tho often times people requiring 2 people to get someone up or moved you had to fly solo and pray the lift worked and all goes smoothly... my fav was actually bath aide rotation cuz you can pamper the person with doimg hair and nails and they always felt so awesome getting that shower... it made their day even week... it was a good day when you worked with hard working aids and awesome nurses even understaffed... during any downtime we loved to go back and give more time to the residents... nursing homes are so sad place.... assistant living places are usually fine and more relaxed cuz you assiting people not doing full care... i could never understand how one can pay so much for nursing homes and they share the room with 2 other people and toilet/sink with up to 6 other people... the single person smaller rooms where i worked was usually for someone with ton of money or someone on hospice to give family privacy with their loved one...

katya03316 That sounds reasonable. This was back in 1974. I was the EVERYTHING aide. On the wing I was on, it was just me, the LPNs and one RN. There were about 10 patients on that wing. All private rooms. I took vitals, changed sheets, delivered meals, did bedpans and urinals, and bathed patients. All of these patients used a bedpan or urinal. There were no lifts. If they could get in a wheelchair they went to the shower room. If not, they were bathed in bed (sponge bath-I’d never seen a bed bath until years later when my PT gave me a catalog). One patient had a private nurse. I guess these were the “well to do”? It never crossed my mind. The patients that got regular visitors were treated much better than those who didn’t. I remember seeing a call light on as I walked in that day. I pointed it out and was told he’d been a pain all morning, and to ignore him. The nurses station was at the corner of an L shaped hall. I put my purse away and got my schedule for the day. As I walked by his room I heard him calling for help. I went in to make sure he was ok. He’d had diarrhea, a very bad case. I’d never seen anything like it. I got him cleaned up, changed the sheets and put extra chucks just in case. I guess I could have just left him like that, but let’s face it, he needed a real shower! He was so grateful he had tears welling up in his eyes. I thought it was gratitude, but it could’ve been humiliation. He thanked me profusely. Bless his heart. He’d been ill! I don’t know what he’d done to make the nurses mad. Maybe he’d complained about his stomach hurting all night and all morning and they didn’t know he was having digestive problems. Maybe they’d done all they could do and were just tired of going to the end of the hall just to hear the same thing. I have no idea. I wasn’t trying to disobey orders. I was just worried when I heard him calling for help. It DID get me behind...but I completed everything on my schedule. That afternoon I spent extra time with another patient who was bedridden and non verbal. As I gave her a sponge bath I noticed she had bedsores on her heels. I noted them on her chart, treated them, and relieved the pressure. I also brushed and washed her long hair, and braided it so it wouldn’t get so tangled again. I had long hair so I probably had a hair tie in my pocket. I sang to her (that’s probably why I got fired! 😂) and treated her as though she was my own family. Her eyes sparkled. She couldn’t smile, but I sensed she was so tickled to have her “hair done”. I decided then and there that none of my loved ones would EVER be in a nursing home if I could help it, and if I couldn’t I’d visit as often as possible. I’ve done exactly that. To be honest, I spent half of my time as a kid in the hospital. I’d never seen patients treated badly on purpose. After a wonderful surgeon built me a hip and I was able to work I was a candy striper at Baptist Hospital and Children’s Hospital. I really wanted to be a nurse. I was not allowed by my Dr. to work on my feet. I did so against his advice. I’m paying for it now. He said I “couldn’t” but I COULD! I didn’t really understand. I just wanted to be like everyone else. And I wanted to give back. I still do...but treating anyone badly for any reason is just not something I can be quiet about. Never have, never will.

@@Hummingbird-ns1fp You never should have been fired, you should have been promoted, you were a blessing to all those people!

Virginia Seeds Skogen Thank you Virginia. I’m glad I helped all I could while I could.

@@Hummingbird-ns1fp many years ago I worked as an aid in a county nursing home. I was trained by an retired nurse that was in her mid 80',s. She was great! I remember what she taught me and have used that training through the years in my everyday life, caring for my children, grandmother, parents, and friend with terminal cancer. I think one of the most important thing she taught her students was that often an aid is the last person a patient has human contact with before they die. "Treat your patients like you would like to be treated if it were you in that bed" . Her compassion was endless as well as her dedication. They told me on one review that I got too attached to my patients. My reply " How can I not!" I loved them all, especially the naughty ones! Thanks to the many you cared for.

Greetings from Long Beach, California USA!

Greetings from Auburn Kansas USA!

Donnie Chapmen, I am 70 and I agree. We nurses used to say we would tattoo DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) on our chest to prevent existing at a nursing home in a brain dead state, where we would slowly physically deteriorate. My son literally saw a man with it tattooed on his chest in California in September and sent me the text pix.

I’m almost 70. I chose to ROT in my mobile home, before I ever agree to going to a nursing home 🛑 I saw the horrible things that go on behind those closed doors! 😢

Donnie Chapman I'm a retired RN and there are good and bad homes. I couldn't afford the good ones. I told my kids to push me off a cliff. In reality when it's time I know how to do it myself, provided I have my marbles intact.

@@Starlight22215 I understand Warrior!

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I’ve been searching for the song playing during this video, can you list a link please ?

@@jerushajohnson5061 Me too! Did you find it?

I second that

I chuckled at that as well!

I don't think mine could lift me up like that anymore... maybe when we were first married (27 years ago).

Lol mine probably couldn’t lift me like that anymore lol I got chunky 😂😂😂

Considering the circumstances the missing tuna was completely understandable. I'm sorry for your loss, even though it has been many years I'm sure you still miss your mom. When my dad passed suddenly (13 years ago), he was in a different region of the country. I needed to pack quickly, find some pictures, take care of our five kids, 3 months old - 16 years. My headed was muddled, packing took forever, and I never did find the pictures. When we got back home to weeks later, I found the pictures easily ... hmm, you do what you can, as you can. I miss my dad too, Doug reminds me of him a bit, my dad would have loved Doug & Stacy's homestead, the orchard and bees especially.

@@virginiaseedsskogen2038 Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss, too. Your head being muddled... that's a great description. They too, lived in an entirely different part of the country than me. That must have been a very hard loss, with your children being so young and never getting to know him. My mom would have loved Doug and Stacy's channel. My dad didn't watch tv, so I don't think he would have watched it. Thank-you for your kind words. :-)

Just like the title of the video 😉 thanks for watching

Hahaha

Now thats funny😂

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Now that is funny😂

Good to know!

Cody Francis, enjoy.

@@festorfamine honey take my hand

I like it too

Thanks

Hey mate !! Dargo vic ✌️

see you in the morning =)

I did that once and my dogs inhaled the custard. They didn't care....it was a treat for them. My cats, now gone, loved pumpkin too.

LOL that's right no stinking ladders 🥴😅🤣😅🤣🥴🤣😅😂😂

Of course, the reason I messed up the ferment was forgetting the lemon juice. So perhaps that upsets the SCOBY development, I don't know. Listen to her over me any day.

Agreed, the noise of the guinea and ducks was a total bonus 👌. 🐢

Made your own scoby?? Would love to know what you did. Please fill me in. Thanks.

@@rhondam4917 I'll chime in...my guess is by using the kombucha in the jar, it ends up making another scoby... haven't tried it myself, but it makes sense to me....try and see!

The deer get my apples and pears!

@Maurer Mobile Blasting will give it a try next season. The Japanese beetles were terrible here this summer but they went after my pole beans. We used a product called bag a bug. Worked great and got two bags full of the little buggers. We have a huge family of Maurers here in Michigan.

Just go with the pizza dough yeast needs no rising time. Just pop in oven take out to sauce etc and finish baking. Absolutely marvelous! Great invention! I find it at Kroger stores here.

@@controlfoodcontrolthepeopl5627 What????

@@stacymurphy2599 I asked the same question over the summer. I do not know the details. I must have missed a video.

@@controlfoodcontrolthepeopl5627 What??? Oh my, what happened to her? So is this the younger dog in this video? I have not been able to tell them apart since the puppy has grown up.

They just talked about Maggie...Maggie was running away constantly and one day, she never came back.

@@NorthnSouthHomestead heart breaking