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I've been leading up to this day for quite some time. It's really quite a day. In June, when we conducted our long-awaited summer slaughter , and i started collecting chicken feet, i thought about this day. Also, in June, when we ordered our All American Pressure Canner , from the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry, i thought about this day. Even way back then , the very first time i ever turned a chicken into dinner, i was thinking about this day. Drumroll  please. Today, i canned chicken stock .   I know some of you are wondering why that's all bold and underlined, but it's important....really. Here's how. (For those of you who just checked out because i'm giving directions about chicken stock, please stick with me; there's a story in here too.  Thanks!) I started with 15 chicken feet, 8 chicken necks, and 8 chicken gizzards.  These were frozen in June, and i started thawing them on Tuesday. I'm taking some cues from a fellow who calls...

Three hundred. This post is my 300th post. Ever. I want to write something momentous on my 300th post, and i don't have anything particularly momentous to say. Though, i am sort of floored that i have blathered on quite that much. Well, i mean it took me four years and seven months, and three different blogs, to pull it off.  But the last 149 posts took place all in 2010. And 2010 is only half over.  I hope that my writing and presentation and voice and whatever have improved during that time. O.k., i just looked.  My blog writing has definitely improved during that time. And that was kind of the point.  Or part of it.  It's hard to become a good writer without practice. Thank you for reading. That's what i should really be saying.  Thank you for reading.  You make writing fun. A couple other momentous-ish things happened today. My long awaited pressure canner and my spur-of-the-moment incubator were delivered today!  This is...