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Local canners in a pickle over ongoing canning-lid shortage
Bregg thinks the shortage stems from “a perfect storm” of conditions: COVID-weary folks turning to home-gardening and canning to alleviate grocery bills and fears of future food shortages; millennial do-it-yourselfers who find they now have time to try homespun pursuits like canning salsa, and pandemic-related slow-downs at every level of the supply chain. 8:15 am, Mar. 10, 2021 ×
Sue B. Balcom, founder of The Root Sellers in Bismarck and a regular contributor to Main Street Eats on Prairie Public Radio, says she didn t can as much produce to sell at her farmer s markets last fall because it was so hard to find canning lids. Special to The ForumSpecial to The Forum
Esther Baird
Well regular readers, I’m typing this from day nine of quarantine, or to be more precise, isolation. When you are a close contact to a person with COVID-19 you quarantine. When your whole family goes down like a raging infectious ball of corona-fire, you isolate. Here there be dragons, or at least COVID particles.
The tri-town pandemic response nurse, who was calm and kind when I was stunned and semi-hysterical (hard to imagine, I know) asked about our first symptoms to help establish our timeline. But when everything is a possible symptom (and everything is with COVID), it’s hard to remember. Did you feel achy, or was it just the way you sat? Was that a runny nose, or just the post nasal drip you’d had the last three months from living in blighted New England? Was there a headache? Indisputably yes, but was it from COVID or from a year of pandemic slowly turning your brain into something closer to Chickarina soup (the only soup Stop and Shop sold during those ea
Minnesota plays significant role in PBS documentary about Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder s Minnesota roots show in a new American Masters. December 29, 2020 7:25am Text size Copy shortlink:
Just about every Midwestern state wants to claim Laura Ingalls Wilder, the renowned author who moved a dozen times during her childhood. But a new PBS documentary gives Minnesota the strongest bragging rights. Laura Ingalls Wilder: From Prairie to Page, which premieres Tuesday, emphasizes her time here so much that Twin Cities Public Television was recruited as producing partner for a film that is part of American Masters, the long-running series that has earned 28 Emmy awards.
Self-Reliance: An American Virtue
One chilly afternoon just after Thanksgiving, I stood in the crowded lot of my local auto repair shop in Front Royal, Virginia, watching the mechanic try to remove the metal caps from the pressure valves on my tires. He explained no one should have put such caps on these nozzles because they get stuck, as they were now, and taking them off by force could damage the tires. He first used WD-40 and a wrench, then disappeared inside, returned with a blowtorch, gingerly heated one of the caps and valves, and tried the wrench again.
“Impressive,” I said when the cap came off.