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Teach Them Wisely

Child Looking Towards Sun

“Children from a very young age should be taught that the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West, that if you point your right hand to the East and your left to the West, your face will face North and your back will face South, that the direction of the water in a river is the direction towards the sea, that the Moon rises in the East and sets in the West, that if there is no moon there is a star that indicates the north and your latitude, that the more to the horizon you see the Polar Star, the closer you are to Ecuador, if you see a bird in the middle of the sea it is because there is land where it flies.
Respect and love for animals, trees, the earth and the elements that give us life.
Teach them all this before giving him a cell phone because the cell phone runs out and the signal is lost… wisdom is never lost.
Let’s not let them lose connection.”
~ Author Unknown
Art by Laron G. S. via Midjourney
(Tom: There is no equivalent of Polaris (the North Star) in the South, but to find your latitude if you are in the Southern hemisphere you can use a constellation called the Southern cross (illustrated on the flag of Australia) and two stars called the Southern Pointers.
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Cook To Can

Cook To Can

Tell all your non-canning friends!

Today someone mentioned that running a burner for 3 hours was a crazy waste of money.

This one stove burner has run from 9 am continuously till now and it isn’t done. I have another 2 hrs for this lot and likely another 2 hours after that if not more.

Yes it’s using electricity.

Yes it is a pain to babysit.

To make this make sense I want you think about the items you are canning.

Is it useful to your kitchen?

Does your family enjoy eating it?

Then do the math quickly. Add up what that canner of food would cost you fresh then if you bought it processed commercially. Often the costs of electricity plus water plus the cost of the food is a small fraction of commercially processed items.

Then think about what was put into the foods you canned. Zero preservatives, dyes etc.

How it was handled-processed in your kitchen not a factory.

Also remember you are leading by example. Your kids are seeing what goes into their foods and maybe, just maybe some knowledge will stick.

So yes it does cost money to run the stove. But for me the benefits outweigh the costs every single time.