Ham and Bean Soup

I made ham and bean soup today, it's still cooking away in the crock pot.  You may not think this is significant, but it is!  I don't like beans.  I found this recipe online, and it looked good, despite the beans.  I even TASTED the broth to see how it was...I lived!

The "plan" is to have PH try it, if it likes it great, we'll have it tomorrow.  If not, I'll can it and it will become part of my emergency food, " if you are starving, you'll eat it" pantry.  It smells good, and the taste...needed more salt it was kind of BLAH.


PH is finished with barn construction, but has been welding a couple of hay racks for the horses out of scrap pipe.  Pretty cool!  I had mentioned to him I wanted to buy some from the local feed store, but FREE is always better. 

What have you done to prepare this week?

I've decluttered and gone through items to make room for more storage.
Inventoried the freezer
Talked to my FIL about hog butchering (he's a wealth of knowledge)
Started preparations to make deer jerky for the first time


More later, coyotes are prowling gotta go....