Welcome back to my channel. Welcome back to another video. I feel like it has been a while since we've gotten to hang out and to chat. So today is going to be a bit of a catch-up video. I've been filming little clips here and there in the last couple of weeks of some of the things we've been doing, but we have just been overwhelmingly busy, crazy busy. And if you're new around here or you don't already follow me on Instagram, that's the place to kind of keep up with what's going on between videos or maybe why I haven't been posting. So the number one thing, hang on, before I even say this, I need to take a sip of my pumpkin cold brew that I just made. I found these cute cups at Target and I just made myself a quick little afternoon pick me up. I wanna say a big thank you to AliExpress for sponsoring this week's video. I have been using their fruit and vegetable washing machine. It is a portable automatic ultrasonic washing cleanser capsule. 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If you guys don't know, our daughters are each a year apart and right now they are five, six and seven. So we are in those learning stages where everything is completely new. There's a lot of basics being taught and I am homeschooling them. So we have started school. I'm gonna say again, deep breath. We've officially started school and we're a couple of weeks in. So that is why I haven't been filming the last little bit. Reason one, there's a lot of reasons, but that's the biggest one. I really wanted to get us grounded in a good homeschool routine and just really have a good footing on how we wanted to do school every day and that sort of thing. So Everly is in first grade this year and Kalia and Hazley are both doing kindergarten together. They love being together and they love just working at the same things. They were both ready for it and so I decided to go ahead and have them kind of in the same grade. So we're gonna try it for now obviously as the years go on. If there needs to be a separation in that, we will do that but right now they're loving working together on the same stuff. I'm not gonna go into great detail about homeschooling or curriculum in this video but let me know in the comments below if you wanna hear more about that type of content. I know in the past you all have requested that a lot so we will get there. So besides school, the girls have just been keeping up with some of their little responsibilities around the house and just getting in a new ebb and flow with school involved with all of our other tasks and things we do around the house. So besides school, we have also been doing a lot of the seasonal canning. If you're completely new around here, I do a lot of meal prepping and I also do a lot of meal, meal, food preservation. So basically I do a lot of canning and freezing. We have three deep freezers and a lot of canned goods. So in the past two weeks, we've been kind of wrapping up gardening like you saw in the beginning of this video. We have a garden that is shared with some of my siblings and their spouses and my parents. It's on my parents' property. We don't really have room here at this house to have a garden and it just made it a little bit easier for us to all kind of share the responsibility. I will admit everyone that has been involved in the garden, their lives have been very chaotic and the tail end of the season, the garden does not look nice and weed free. It's very weedy. So we've just been going and just getting the harvest out of the weeds. So we've had a lot of tomatoes. So one of the things I focused on was making tomato soup. I found an amazing recipe. I will link it below because I did find the core of the recipe on Pinterest and then I did my own tweaking to make it more how we would like it. So my first batch of tomato soup actually burnt if you follow me on Instagram, you know I was sharing about it there and then I found out that the easiest way to cook tomatoes without them burning to the bottom of the pan is to actually do it in my pressure cooker. So most people call them Instapods. That's a brand to name of pressure cooker. Mine is just a different brand and it is a 10 quart pressure cooker. So I'm able to put around 10 pounds of tomatoes in there at a time. And then I put them through my Victorian strainer and we are still in the midst of doing tomato soup. I actually have a ton of tomatoes in the freezer that are waiting to be made into soup but we've got some other things that's going on this week that I need to just push those off for a few more weeks. So that's one thing you can do when you have a garden is freeze your tomatoes if you are overwhelmed by too many other things. Another huge canning project that I had going on this past week was pears. And I think if I'm remembering correctly I ended up with about, no I'm sorry, 42 quarts of pears. And I know you might think that sounds crazy but when you have children that love fruit and love pears that's actually a great amount of pears for a year. Especially whenever you wanna use the pears to make fruit slush or you wanna use them in yogurt there's lots and lots of uses for pears just like peaches. I did peaches a few weeks ago and I got an amazing deal on some really delicious pears. So it's really simple to whip them up, water bath can them and have them on the shelf for up to two years. To be honest, besides homeschooling and canning we've also just been keeping up with the house and working on different projects. A lot of things that are going to be coming up on my home channel as well. And this past weekend Corey and I went to our first professional football game. It was such a fun experience. I shared a little bit about it on my Instagram and it was just crazy. I've never been in a place with that many people at one time. It was a fun experience. It's not necessarily a place I would wanna take my children but maybe one day when they're adults they can experience it for themselves. I kind of don't think we will ever go to another one again but it was kind of a once in a lifetime situation for us. We went with my brother and his wife and had so much fun with them. So today I actually started the day out by getting up and canning some chicken broth. I had 10 chickens. I had bought actually like back in April or something like that of this year at a local market that I got a really good deal on. And I'm finally getting around to actually making them into chicken broth and shredded chicken to can because I'm trying to clear out my freezer space right now.  But I am slowly working on getting them cleaned out because tomorrow I'm doing a huge Costco trip with my mom and my sister-in-laws. I might film some of that for my next video. I'm not sure if you guys like Costco hauls let me know in the comments because I will definitely give you guys one of those. So because I want to get some things there that will go into the freezers that has been part of my projects this week is getting those chickens all cooked up. I'm over halfway through them and I'm about ready to take another two out of my big cooker and can up that and put another set of chickens back into the cooker. So you guys may see me do that today. Right now the girls are actually over at my mom's spending some time with her. So I'm gonna take this opportunity to take you guys with me and just kind of show you what I'm doing this afternoon before I drop them off at my mom's though. We had went to a local housewares. I almost want to say hardwares but that's not the right word. Housewares store that is not that far from us that I don't go to often enough. Every time I go in there I kind of remind myself I really need to come in here more regularly because there's different things that I could buy there for a good price and support a small business instead of buying it on Amazon but somehow in the process of the canning and grilling season and all of that we were down to one paring knife in our house and if you are a person that cooks you know that paring knives are very important especially whenever you're canning and freezing. So that was my main purpose in going in there and I left with a lot more. So I'm gonna take you guys out to the kitchen and show you a little haul of the things that I got. I shouldn't even say a little. It was a lot of stuff. In my opinion it was a pretty good haul. So I found a lot of great things. I will say this before I even show you all what the goodies that I found or before we start meal prepping anything because I do wanna prep a couple things today if I can get to it. I will do my best to link the things if I can find them. If you don't find the link in the description box that means it might be something that was like specifically special to this store and I couldn't find it online. So that may be the case with a few of these things. Before I show you my housewares haul I thought I would do a quick little sneak at the chickens and making the chicken broth. I love being able to load this thing up and get about six quarts of chicken broth out of this and then each chicken makes about a quart of shredded chicken canned. And I know that this cooker is not the most aesthetically pleasing beautiful thing but it does the job. It's actually my mom's and I borrow it from her. She's got a couple of them but it's amazing and can make so much more than just a simple little crock pot could. Okay, I'm gonna show you guys some of the stuff that I got or most of the stuff that I got. Also, the mess behind me is the reality of homeschooling and food preserving happening all at the same time. It's chaotic, it's chaotic. But I decided, you know what? I think that I need to bring some realness into what this time of year can look like for mamas that are in my shoes. So the afternoon sun is coming in so if you see all kinds of lighting that's what's going on. So this houseware store, I'm not going to give the exact location. However, a bunch of you from this area are gonna know what store I'm talking about but this houseware store has a lot of things. Everything you can think of from kitchen gadgets to brooms and mops to canning tools to hand towels. They have an entire aisle of like hand towels and washcloths and all of the linens and things you would need for your kitchen. They have bed sheets, they have books, they have homeschool books and curriculum and things that help you with that. They've got storage, food storage containers, just everything, absolutely everything that is home related and home making related. So I'm not really gonna go in any specific order. I'm just gonna grab stuff and show you what all I got. So like I said, the main reason I went in there is to get paring knives and they have these in bins. They have like a display knife and then you just get it out of the bin and I haven't opened them up yet but I got two smaller paring knives that are actually really, really, tinally, tinally, it's not a word, I don't know. But very small serrated edge on it and then I got a new bread knife because the one I had initially gotten a while back was like a very cheap one and it's starting to rust which I don't really want that going into our food. So this is a much more high quality bread knife and then because it is getting into fall and I'm going to be making more pies plus I really want to start practicing making more pies. I think that it's such an art and they're so yummy. I grabbed a good pie serving knife. I'm not exactly sure, maybe it says it right on here. Pie server, a serrated pie server. So you can easily cut the piece of pie and scoop it out with this thing. Along the lines of serving, I also grabbed two more serving spoons just for our things whenever we're eating dinner at the table, whenever we need to scoop corn and things like that and scoops, speaking of scoops, I got this scoop to scoop ice. Our refrigerator here does not have a ice maker so we tend to buy ice in really big bags. I do have ice trays but it's just easier to spend like the dollar or so and get a nice big bag of ice and then we have ice for a long time especially for ice coffees and things like that but one of the problems I've been having is sometimes they freeze in a big chunk and once the bag is ripped open it's a little hard to like throw the bag on the ground and try to smash up the ice. So I'm hoping that this thing helps me. It has like a very flat edge and kind of pointy sides to where you can kind of pick at the ice and be able to scoop the ice out and while we were in the section where they have a bunch of scoops the girls reminded me that they would like to have a scoop for Zaley's food.  I didn't really think of it. I guess the thing that I have their dog food in I generally pick up if I'm feeding her and just dump it in but maybe it's a little harder for them to do that so sometimes they end up using their hands I guess and so this will work a lot better for them. A while back I had picked up some glass measuring pitchers at Ikea and they were a really, really thin glass and one of them a couple of days ago Corey was mixing something up and it just cracked and so I decided I need to get myself a good quality set of glass measuring pitchers. So I got to this one which is one quart which is four cups and quart having something that can measure a quart so you automatically think it's a quart is really nice especially whenever it comes to canning and then along with that and it's just an anchor hocking pitcher you can get these on Amazon. I will link them below if I can find ones that are this exact sizes and so then I also got one that is a two cup and one that is a one cup so if we are mixing barbecue sauce for the grill which is how the other one got broken he won't have to worry about being ginger with these. They're very tough. They're pretty much as thick if not a little bit thicker than a canning jar and I have dropped so many canning jars on the floor and have really never had too many break on me. Another thing that this houseware store has a lot of is children's toys and they have a lot of wooden children's toys which I think is really, really neat. One of the things that the girls requested we get for their play kitchen which is pretty important to them is a little rolling pin. Kalia was pretty adamant mom, we need a rolling pin for our kitchen. Apparently they are planning to do some cutout cookies or something so they really wanted to have this. Something that I have looked at on Amazon and I just have felt like we're really overpriced is a maple syrup dispenser. I do get maple syrup and I kind of repackage it into smaller jars just so that we can seal them and then be able to just use them in smaller quantities. A lot of times I buy maple syrup in large quantities like by the gallon and so I put it into smaller jars. So we've just been dumping our maple syrup out of a jar and it really has been a pain because a lot of times the lid on the jar starts to stick really bad from the maple syrup and I just couldn't justify spending a lot on a syrup dispenser like a lot of the ones on Amazon but this one here I think was under $5. I don't know, it was only a couple dollars and it's just like those ones that you see at the restaurant and I'm hoping that this solves our problem with the sticky lid and I can just kind of fill this up as we need it plus it will be so much easier for the girls to just pull back on it and drizzle maple syrup across their pancakes or waffles. Yes, I did grab glass measuring pitchers but I also grabbed two more of these. I had two that I started out with last year and I don't exactly know what happened to them. I know one of them got some kind of acidic liquid in it and it ate away at the plastic which of course I threw that out immediately but these are super handy especially whenever it comes to canning if you are taking something say you're like canning baked beans or something like that.  So having two of them especially if you are have a helper or you're doing canning with someone else is very handy. So the project for this next week and again I plan to film it or at least film portions of it is we are doing grape juice. I'm picking up eight boxes of grape juice tomorrow morning super super early before we go to Costco and my sister-in-law is actually also going to be doing grape juice with me and along with the grape juice I asked the girls if they would like to have some grape jelly. Do we need grape jelly? Probably not because I have so I don't even know we're not even gonna go into how much jelly I have downstairs but it's a lot. I did blueberry and I did strawberry and it was a lot. So I'm basically doing grape jelly just because I wanna try it. I've never done it before and it would just be a fun project to do along with the grape juice. So I grabbed this jelly strainer set it's just a little thing that you set up and it has a bag in it and you cook the grapes and then you just put the grapes in here and they drip down into a bowl and I think it's going to make it really easy to make grape jelly. You just add your pectin in, put it in the jars you water bath can it and it is done. All right so like I said they do have a lot of a huge variety of things and one thing I've been on hunt for is a really really good mop and this here is from a company called Troycraft.  So I decided to go ahead and make the plunge and buy it. It was pretty pricey but in my experience a lot of times a pricier mop means that it works well. So what comes with it or what you use with it are these little pads and as you can see they look very homemade but they seem very very durable. They've been searched and I think that they will hold together really well plus I know where I can get more obviously going to the store there and you can use them with all kinds of cleaners. I'm excited to try this out and these are also super convenient to wash your walls and your ceilings kind of as a duster as well as a mop for the floor. Okay so like I said they have a lot of toys and learning materials and something that Haysley my youngest is really into is puzzles and I'm going to be honest I don't have any puzzles. They did when they were a lot younger but we lost so many pieces and I just haven't repurchased puzzles since they've kind of been old enough to be doing puzzles and I know that she does puzzles a lot at my mom's house and my mother-in-law's house so I decided we need to start our own little puzzle collection. So this one is a fun one that is 27 pieces and it's like a large puzzle that she can do on the floor plus it's an alphabet train and we are really trying to drill in those letters right now so I thought that this would be really nice for her and I had Haysley pick this out herself they had a bunch of different ones there. Along with their children's books and other things they have Bibles and oceanals and a lot of other like cookbooks a huge cookbook area so I was looking through them I am a big sucker for cookbooks I love love love cookbooks so I got this one which I'm most excited about and then I got this one this one here is called the Practical Produce Cookbook I'm really excited to look into this because I feel like it's going to give me a lot of recipes to use some of the canned goods and things that I have been canning plus it gives you ideas for canning has like canning recipes in it and I love cookbooks that are kind of old timey and there's a lot of cookbooks that are made by the Mennonite and the Amish and I have a Mennonite background and my husband has a Mennonite and Amish background our parents I've said that before but I just thought I would say it again so I love getting my hands on these types of books and this book is also like that as well this one is called a Housewives Handy Reference Book and this book is really neat in fact I think this would be an amazing wedding gift to anyone if I can find it online I'm going to link it below because it has traditional canning methods in it it has housekeeping it has things like how to take care of chickens how to cut pieces of meat the correct way I know again it might sound a little bit old timey but it's also a lot of things that I feel like in our modern day and age we don't talk about a lot or we just don't have a lot of information on because it was things that was taught through word of mouth from mothers to daughters so I feel like this is almost like from a mother to a daughter handbook kind of thing it's really really unique and neat and I really enjoyed just looking through it today and I can't wait to look through more of it alright I'm just going to zip through some of these last couple things I got a potato masher it's been forever since I've had a potato masher and the other day I was in desperate need of one just whipping up some easy mashed potatoes so I got a good potato masher I got a pastry blender again to be making pie crust I know I said that already but that's why I got this and I somehow haven't had one of these for years and there's very very convenient but it's called an egg and mushroom slicer it also works for bananas and other things like that and just soft things kiwis stuff like that where you can put it in and slice it really easily I grabbed a baker's quarter sheet I actually already have one of these but I'm really trying to perfect a good whole wheat dough that we enjoy and I want to make whole wheat rolls and it just would be easier to be able to double the batch or do a batch that does two pans and be able to pop them in at the same time so I grabbed another one of those I have two five gallon buckets of potatoes from our garden that are sitting out in the garage ready to be processed I'm going to be dicing them and canning them that's just what we like to do with our potatoes and I needed a potato brush so I have that I grabbed this because I have a bunch of eggs and our chickens we also have chickens at my parents house we have bought them I don't know how old they are now they might be five months old now so they're starting to lay we are getting about five eggs a week right now which means that about five of the hens are starting to lay and anyways, so I'm going to have a lot of eggs soon so I thought this tool might be a little bit helpful is called an egg separator and you just crack the egg in there and it helps to keep the yolk and the egg separated without having to like make sure you're not catching egg shells and all of that and we have been needing a like skinny bottle brush so this thing has a big end here and a smaller end here just an easy thing to clean different bottles and things we have around the house along with making dinner rolls I got this dough scraper to be able to just cut into my dough a little bit easier most of the time I just grab it and twist and pull it apart but this will be nice for certain things the girls needed this little thing just to help sweep up dog food and stuff like that and then the last thing I got was a cherry pitter and I know it's not really cherry season however, we do have a few markets in our area that even in the winter time sometimes find really good deals on certain things like cherries like blueberries this past year in March they had blueberries that were from California that were like a dollar for a box and they looked amazing and to me if it's something that I can get especially buying through a small market local to me that they may ship them in from somewhere else but it still benefits that small store and it benefits me because I'm getting them at a really good price I'm totally okay with that even though it's not from a local farm so I do like to keep everything on hand that I need to do most normal preserving and one of those things I did not get to do this year was cherries so I wanted to have a cherry pitter on hand in case somewhere along the line even before next summer somebody gets some good cherries in and I can get a good deal on them and we can do up some of our own cherries so that is everything I got I know this is a little unusual for me I used to do a lot of halls and things like this but I just have gotten out of the loop with it and I am really ready to just bring you guys along in what I'm doing in life even if it's a little messy even if it's not perfect even if I am long-winded if you don't like it, you don't have to watch it but I'm just here to kind of chat about the things that I've got going on in life and be an encouragement to other homemakers so I think I'm going to put this stuff away and I'm gonna check on the temperature of those chickens see if they're almost done I have two more that were frozen this morning that Kailia and I brought up from the freezer and I'm not sure how solid they are but they're ready to go in for the next batch and you can see Corey's lunchbox is sitting back here he got home early and we went and grabbed lunch together that's actually why the girls ended up at my mom's house but she just decided to keep them because my grandparents are visiting for a few hours just to give me a little head start on getting some things done this afternoon all right, so I decided to let the chickens cook a little bit longer I kind of overcook them a little bit not in a bad way just to make sure that the broth is really rich and delicious so I'm going to let that as is and I'm actually going to run to the UPS store and grab some boxes to package up and I need bubble wrap also but to package up the items that I gave away in this month's giveaway on my Instagram so I'm going to, it has a couple glass items so I need to have something to package it well and as much as I really want to go with like really cute tissue paper and make the packages fun this month I don't think it's going to happen I think I'm just going to package it all up and get it sent off to the winners and I'm so excited to start doing this every single month just giving away things that are my favorites just to give a nice thank you to my viewers and followers on Instagram I'm going to get everything packaged up and I doubt I'll get it all mailed out today but at least I can get it ready to go because it's been a little bit since I have announced the winners of the giveaway and I need to get it rolling so that I'm not rolling into next month's giveaway and mailing out two months worth of stuff. All right, I've got my three boxes over here for my three winners from the giveaway all packed up and ready to be labeled and shipped off to them and then right here I pulled off my cooker I already pulled out the chicken that's cooling so I can actually shred it and get it ready for just canning shredded chicken and then this here is the broth so I put carrots and celery and onion and some parsley in here along with some seasoning, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, those sorts of things so I don't really want all of the little pieces of chicken and stuff floating around in there so I'm going to go ahead and actually strain it out I have a strainer right in here and then I just put this cheesecloth over the top because I really do want it to look nice and clear when I'm going to put it in a soup or something like that so I'm going to use one of my little plastic pitchers that I got today to do that and then it's going to go right into my jars and I'm going to let it sit for a little bit and I like to scoop out a little of the fat that comes to the top and then I go ahead and can it up. All right, the jars you just saw me load I did just put in the canner it's getting up to heat, all of that but I thought this was kind of a nice representation of my little system I'm doing so I'm about to put these in I need to fill this up with water and then they will just go in overnight and be slow cooking all night long making wonderful broth, making wonderful shredded chicken I just got these two out of the freezer to thaw overnight so in the morning when these come out these will go in to be in all day tomorrow kind of going in cycles here and then these are actually some that I did last night and they're already canned and I just need to wash the jars so this is what it looks like whenever you're completely finished and you have wonderful chicken broth for soups whatever recipes you want to use it for and I didn't have fresh parsley I actually need to get that at Costco tomorrow and I didn't have fresh parsley so I used some dried used up the rest of my dried parsley because I need to pick up some more at Costco tomorrow so I'm gonna go ahead and put this on and just kind of get these washed down and keep the system rolling all right, if my hair doesn't say that I got some stuff done today I don't know what does I just looked in the viewfinder in my camera and I was like, wow, wow but I got all of that chicken shredded up obviously the other batch is in the canner the raw chickens are in the cooker to cook all night long and make us some yummy broth and I'm actually sitting down on the office floor to drink the rest of my electrolytes which is super important I drink lots of electrolytes it's just a good way to be hydrated and since we have town water we use a Berkey filter which I love our Berkey filter and I filter all of my water for canning and all of that through that but Berkey filters tend to remove a lot of minerals if you don't know what I'm talking about it's just a water filter but since it cleans the water you wanna replace them so I do actually have mineral rocks in the bottom of our Berkey filter that helps to replace minerals but also to supplement that we drink a lot of electrolytes so anyways, I'm here getting those in and I'm trying to kind of mentally prepare for our day tomorrow I know I mentioned a lot of it earlier but just getting the girls up I got them tucked into bed they had a church event tonight so they just got back from that and I know I'm gonna have to get them up very very early we're probably gonna have to be up by five tomorrow morning which I try to be up between six and seven pretty much every morning but five's a little bit of a stretch even for me so it's gonna be a busy morning of getting them up, getting them ready to go we have to go get the grapes bring the grapes home I'm probably gonna have to put them in air conditioning because they're not gonna be processed tomorrow they'll be processed the next day and then go meet my mom and my sister-in-laws and we will all drive to Costco it's about an hour from where we live so it just, we make a big trip out of it generally and all go as a family and my parents have a really big van that a lot of people can ride in we usually kind of take another vehicle too so that we can take some of the seats out of the big van to put our Costco haul in which is a lot because it's me plus it would technically be five families five families, yeah because that's me and I have three brothers and so it's all their wives and then of course my parents so that would include five families so it's five families worth of Costco if that gives you a picture so what I am doing is I, because I, we do this every once in a while I'm out of certain things that I did that I got last time and there's some other things that I don't need to replenish right now but what I like to do is I like to go on my phone and use the Walmart app and sometimes the Aldi app depending on what it is and I like to price check things because a lot of times Sam's Club and Costco we go to both of them but we tend to like Costco a little bit better but sometimes their stuff can seem like a better deal because it looks like a large quantity of something but ultimately per ounce it's actually a better deal at Aldi or Walmart so I like to kind of compare prices just to make sure that I'm not overpaying for something just because of the amping up, sorry I close the door and if you hear some whining Zaley is over there the girls are in bed and she's feeling lonely and she knows that I'm awake yet so anyway, you get what I'm saying sometimes they can kind of amp up something just because it's at Costco or because it's Kirkland which is Costco's brand so I'm just doing a little bit of price checking and what I'm also probably going to do is the things that I really need to stock up on that are not as good of a price at Costco I'm gonna make a Walmart order pickup for the following mornings so then I'm still stocking up everything at the same time but I can just go in and get what I need at pickup they'll have it ready for me and I don't need to worry about shopping for that stuff tomorrow at Costco so I know that was a really long ramble but just some little tips and tricks on how I do our Costco shopping so that being said, I'm hoping to vlog our Costco trip tomorrow we will see, depends on if I wake up and how things are going with the girls that's kind of where I'm at with my videos on this channel you all know I have another channel that is very home oriented and home organization oriented sorry, my camera card ran out of space but what I was saying is I just want this channel to be a place where I can post as I want to kind of maybe film clips, bits and pieces and put them together and just give you a little picture into my normal everyday life and a lot of it is surrounded around cooking and food just simply because we cook a lot of things from scratch and we like to eat things that are healthy we eat very, I like to jokingly say we eat very old fashioned because this is how a lot of people ate even 50 years ago where they are eating a lot of home canned foods and just meats and veggies and fruit and homemade bread and things like that so a lot of that takes a lot of preparation and just thought and planning so anyways, I know that I haven't been doing a whole lot of the real meal prepping videos and I probably will be doing that again soon but in between I'm just showing you all the other aspects of what it takes to cook and prep from scratch so anyways, I think I'm going to close this video out I'm so glad that you could spend time with me today and I am looking forward to some of the projects I have coming up here on this channel I am thinking about doing a long term food store pantry tour, that was super long but you got what I'm saying basically showing you how I organize and store a lot of my canned goods and things like that we have a very nice basement area in our house that we have a lot of shelving in and we house a lot of that stuff there so I'm considering doing a little tour of that I'm not sure yet and I don't know if it would be on this channel or on my home channel maybe let me know in the comments what do you think? 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Adam Pohl here with head coach Graham Miller and coach Miller 3-2 defeat to Catholic today. You guys fell behind early and I thought you just used so much effort to get back into the game and I think you've got to be really proud of your team with with how they pushed forward especially in the late portion of the game. Yeah I mean we can't fault the effort in the last and in the second half to be honest you know you know we were done by a very poor 45 minutes you know very flat 45 minutes to start the first half. I thought second half you know the effort was there all the way to the end and you know we made a game of it at the end you know and the third goal for them you know we you know you have to go forward push numbers I can't fault the guys for that I didn't fault them for that but the first two goals are definitely easy for us to defend and we keep giving up these soft goals so I mean the lesson for the guys today is when we're going to play against these really good teams like Catholic you can't play for 45 minutes you have to play for the full 90 minutes and like you said we used a lot of effort up by doing nothing in the first half and then it took us a little bit and the guys really I mean I give them credit they really worked hard to the end. Jay Smith of course scores two goals in this game one of which was on an outstanding play curling around a defender and being taken down in the box scoring on a penalty and then the other one that was really a play where he used his toughness and strength I really think on both those goals you saw the strength of him as far as being able to stay on the ball and just being hard to take off of it.  He had a tendency the first few games where he's kind of like looking at the defender rather than himself and he needs to be the you know he needs to take care of himself first and then the defenders will worry about him and you've seen that when he went back actually all day today he had a chance in the first half where he hit it over the bar because he pressed so he you know he had he got the goals today that he didn't get on Saturday and he just needs to keep worrying about himself and not worrying about the defense because he is big and strong and he can score you've seen that. Lastly you talk about the better second half in the first you guys got six corner kicks in the game they were all in the second half and that's been one of the main assets of your game the ability to win high balls and score with headers and things of that nature you were unable to get a goal like that today and that may have been costly. Yeah I mean we created enough you know that's we created so many chances and it's you know nine shots in the second half and you know if we'd only did that the first half and the corners were good but we weren't attacking the ball we had a couple of nice headers but we got to mix it up maybe we've got some other you know what I would say corners in our repertoire that we need to use short corners mix it up because they had some height and those guys want a lot of balls in the air and we just you know we couldn't get one in on that. Well Coach Miller you know good luck here going forward especially with these two back-to-back games this weekend. Yeah we're looking forward to it thank you.


So now we're going to define an important structural term known as stress. And we're going to think about that again as being something that's internal to a body, internal to a material that's inside a structure. So so far we've talked about internal forces and we've thought about internal forces as being small pairs of forces that are acting equal and opposite to each other at some location within a body. And so far we've considered three kinds of those forces. We've considered axial forces where we have a combined surface that I've split apart and there's an equal and opposite normal reaction. We've considered shear forces again where we have equal and opposite reactions but this time they are parallel to the surface. Again we're recognizing that these surfaces are mentally separated as the result of slicing through some connected piece of material. And finally we've considered bending moment as the reaction of two moments applied in opposite directions. Now it turns out each of these force pairs is actually a simplification. We consider these as being concentrated or point loads but they really are a simplification of a type of distributed force at this slice surface. That there's not just a single vector but instead there are a series of small distributed forces applied over the entire area that's being sliced through. In the case of our axial force this roughly represents a uniform distributed force. In the case of our shear force this similarly represents a little harder to draw here but similarly represents a uniform distributed force. But in the first case in axial it was normal and in this case it's tangential. Finally if we consider bending moment, bending moment actually can be considered instead of thinking about it as being a twist we can actually think about it as being a series of pulls and pushes. Where we're pulling on the top of the beam and pushing near the bottom of the beam and we have equal and opposite reactions on the other side. In other words we have a non-uniform or actually a linearly varying. It's non-uniform it's not the same but it varies, a linearly varying distributed normal force. So if instead of us thinking about each of these internal forces as being individual forces and individual paired forces we now start thinking them as being a whole sequence of smaller distributed forces. If you remember distributed forces are an application of a force applied to an area, a small area. That area might be the entire surface or it might be some smaller portion of that surface. And that area is matching up on opposite sides. These two areas are effectively the same place we've just separated them so that we can see what's going on. And we're going to go ahead and define, let's use P to represent the axial force pair. We'll use V to represent the shear force pair and we'll use M here to represent the bending moment. Well we're going to go ahead and define something known as axial stress. Axial stress is the relationship between this overall force, internal force and the area over which it's applied. In other words we're going to have units of force like pounds per unit area for example inches squared. And this term we're going to call axial stress. Notice it's sort of like a distributed force except that it's a distributed force pair that you have equal and opposite distributed forces acting on the same area. We have a Greek letter we use for that. This is the Greek letter sigma, a small version of the Greek letter sigma. The larger version looks something like this and is used for other things like the sum of, that's the capital version. We're not using that, we're going to use a small Greek letter sigma. And so our notation for axial stress is the Greek letter sigma and its relationship is related to the axial force as it's applied to an area. For shear force we use a different letter, actually I should say for shear stress we use a different letter. We use the Greek letter tau, but the relationship is very similar. Tau is related to the shear force as it's applied over an area. And notice that area as in the case of the shear force that area is parallel to the shear stress. And again this is going to be in pounds per inch squared or newtons per meter squared units of force per unit area. The bending moment is a little bit more complex. Notice first of all we recognize that the stresses or the forces we're talking about, these distributed forces are still normal. And because they're in a normal direction we're also going to think about them as being axial. So we use the same letter, the same sigma to represent an amount of axial force. But in this case maybe it's the axial force due to bending. We'll go ahead and put a B in there for this particular term. It's a slightly different type of axial stress although it is axial stress. Notice it's varying over the height of the beam or the material that we're looking at. And so I'm going to go ahead and give the formula for axial stress and bending. And it does need to be related to the moment, the bending moment M. In this case the formula looks something like this. Sigma equals MY over I. Well now we've added two new terms here, this term Y and this term I. What exactly are these terms? Well let's take a look a little bit more closely and describe exactly what this relationship is. Before we do so I will make a note that this is still in the units of pounds per square inch or newtons per meter squared. Same type of units as the axial stress. Let's see how we got this sigma equals MY over I. Now this is sort of a simplification. Generally if we want to work on a derivation of this we might want to think about it in terms of calculus. There are more detailed descriptions that use calculus as part of the derivation. But let's see if we can think about it a little more simply for our own purposes here. So I'm going to think about this linearly distributed set of forces as a series of smaller axial forces. And I'm going to label each of these small axial forces. So we'll call this one P1 and this one is P2 and P3 and so on and so forth up to however many we have Pn.  And we're going to apply each of those axial forces to a small area that corresponds with it. Now I'm drawing them along the line here but officially they are all being applied to the same part of the surface. So perhaps I can erase these and think about each of these forces as being applied to an area. And what we're going to do is we're going to define a location here where the force is zero. This is a special location called a neutral axis. This is a place where the internal force and then is zero. It makes sense that this exists because if you're stretching along the top and compressing along the bottom there must be someplace in the middle that's not being either stretched or compressed where there's a balance and that's called the neutral axis. Usually the neutral axis is going to be in the center of whatever your cross section is going to be if that cross section is symmetric. It'll usually be halfway between the top and the bottom if that cross section is symmetric. And we're going to measure up from that neutral axis that the location of each of these little areas is going to be up some distance y. That's the y that we're looking at there but we're going to go ahead and consider this to be yi which are distances from the neutral axis. So notice all of this is meant to represent the effect of one big moment. So if that moment m, we're going to think about that moment m as being equal to a sum of a whole bunch of the little moments I'm going to use the capital sigma here but we're going to add up a force p1 and a moment arm y1 and we'll add it to p2 and the moment arm y2 and we'll add it to p3 and the moment arm y3, et cetera, et cetera. We're going to add up all these pieces so that's what the sigma here means. It means I add up i pieces pi times yi. We're going to add up all the forces times their moment arms and that's going to give us the total moment that's expressed by all these little teeny pieces of force. Well, I'm going to recognize from my definition of axial stress over here that sigma equals p over a. If I think about axial stress by themselves, sigma is equal to p over a as long as we're thinking about this as being force pairs. And if that's the case, let me solve that and I'm going to say that p is equal to a times sigma or sigma times a. Well, let me substitute that in here and recognize that this sum of moments, if I replace each p with sigma that corresponds to it, sigma i and the area that corresponds to it, ai, and then the yi is still there. I now have another way of representing the total moment. If I knew the axial stress at each of these little pieces, here's the axial stress at this piece is going to be sigma one and then sigma two is applied at this piece, etc. Okay, that's the relationship between the force, the little, the part of the force, and the small area that it's being applied to. Well, I'm going to arbitrarily add a value yi here and square this here. Okay, I'm going to multiply by yi and divide by yi, which works just fine as long as I'm not thinking about the neutral axis where it's zero. Okay, but if I multiply and divide by the same value, then I end up multiplying it by one and I don't change my overall value. Here's why this is useful and important. I'm going to recognize that the relationship between sigma and y, notice that it's the p is going to grow in a linear fashion. That there is some slope that relates sigma to y, that sigma gets bigger as y does and it's basically proportional at that point. Particularly if we have a point where when y equals zero, sigma equals zero. So because I have a proportional relationship, I'm going to recognize that for every sigma and every y, they are going to give me some sort of constant value k. So I'm going to temporarily replace this with a k. Sigma i, k, ay, ai, yi squared. Why am I doing this? Well, if I'm summing up a bunch of things and they're all multiplied by the same value, the sum of things that are doubled is the same as double the sum. For example, if I added the numbers one plus three plus five, that's going to be equal to nine. Well, if I doubled each of them, two plus six plus ten, that sum is going to be equal to eighteen, which is the same as doubling the sum at the end. So because of that, I can take this k out and have the new sum. Well, this piece right here, this sum of ai, yi squareds, this is the thing that we call a moment of inertia. Actually, formally, this is the area moment of inertia because we are using the area inside it. We represent that with the letter i, and we'll talk in more detail about how that geometry comes into play later. But if I represent that with i, I recognize that my k is the relationship between the stress and the distance away. We know that's related to our moment. If I resolve that, this is where I get the relationship sigma equals my over i. Where again, i is our area moment of inertia, which is a specific geometric relationship, kind of like area. m is our internal bending moment, and y is the distance we are away from the neutral axis. So no matter where you are on the neutral axis, we can find out what the overall... If we know how far we are from the neutral axis, we can figure out what our overall bending stress is at that particular point.


How often do you find yourself saying or doing things without a second thought? Are you in control of your emotions or do you often react immediately to your surroundings? Emotional maturity is more than a matter of age.  It doesn't always come easy and you may even find yourself struggling with it for years. If you'd like to start trying to be a better, more emotionally mature person today, then here are eight things emotionally mature people don't do. Number one, overreact. Do you often let your feelings get the best of you? Do you tend to say or do things you know you'll regret later? An aspect of being emotionally immature is the tendency to overreact to everything since you don't know how to deal with difficult situations in a calm and constructive manner. You may have a short temper, have frequent mood swings and are likely to get angry and frustrated when things don't go your way. Number two, do you often hold grudges against people who have upset you? While it's natural to feel angry, disappointed or frustrated with the people you love for doing you wrong, holding grudges to purposefully punish them or make them feel guilty in return is a sign of emotional immaturity. It takes a lot to forgive someone who has hurt you and even more to try and understand from their point of view. Number three, emotionally blackmail people. Have you ever given someone the silent treatment as a form of payback? Emotional blackmail is a concept popularized by psychotherapist Susan forward and it's a common dynamic of many toxic relationships where one tries to control and manipulate the other through tactics such as fear, obligation and guilt. Other examples of this include withdrawing affection, acting passive-aggressive and threatening to end the relationship or replace them with someone else. Number four, deny your problem.  While those who are more emotionally mature understand that overcoming their problems, pushing through their struggles and facing their fears is the healthiest way to truly grow as a person. Those who are emotionally immature tend to live in denial and distract themselves from confronting their problems. So it may be a sign that you're emotionally immature if you have the habit of avoiding and running away from conflicts. Number five, blame others. Do you take responsibility for your own actions? People who are quick to play the blame game and point their finger at everyone but themselves lack the self-awareness to own up to their mistakes and take responsibility for their actions. Always blaming other people for the things that go wrong in your life is an unhealthy and immature way of coping with the shame and guilt you may feel when you do something wrong. Number six, beat yourself up.  Another way emotional immaturity may manifest itself is through constant and excessive self-criticism. Therefore, learning to value self-love, self-compassion and to learn to forgive yourself for mistakes you make is a step towards emotional maturity. Number seven, act self-absorbed. Do you feel the need to be the center of attention a lot of the time? This want for attention or validation from others may be because you base your self-worth on how others see you. As a result, you may end up constantly putting your own needs before others or by demanding that others give in to what you want and need. Number eight, always need to be right. Have you ever found yourself getting really angry and frustrated with someone because you insist on being right? The sign of emotional immaturity is a refusal to listen to what other people have to say because you feel the need to always be right. Refusing to openly discuss or debate with others or to have your opinions be challenged may be a sign of emotional immaturity. Do you relate to any of the signs mentioned here? If so, what do you plan to do next? Tell us about it in the comments below. If you enjoyed this video, please like and share it with others who may find it helpful too. Subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell icon for more psychology content. All the references used are also added in the description box below. Thank you for watching and we'll see you in our next video.


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in three different areas um it's helpful and I'd like to understand I think a little bit more about specifically where those get tripped up well I have been dying to actually talk to you about this because I actually the um the permitting provisions um that were passed in 2006 the 248a that was one piece the problem with deployment and this is the topic for another uh hearing on telecom um isn't about um uh if you don't have um the money to subsidize rural areas um I have been working on this for well since 2000 and probably I've been doing telecom since 1999 um and my own view based on that experience is the only way you're going to achieve and close the gap is with public subsidies in areas where they're needed you need to shift money from one place to another it's the only way um uh and until there is a will to do that um uh we will not solve the process problem the permit process isn't the problem the problem is the fact that it's rural and there aren't enough customers over which to spread the cost I'm not convinced that the permit process hasn't exacerbated a problem in rural Vermont with telecommunications but that's a different story and I and I defer to your better judgment how to sit here and listen to folks but you know it's uh been the comparison was made so there's also a federal uh and state regulation difference as well so the let me give you an example the Velco statewide radio project for example that it was essential for it to meet its um uh the safety and communications needs that would not have been possible without 248a there are some um really important benefits and part of that is because they have deadlines so let me go back to that um the reason you have and this is coming from someone who has experienced the pressure of having to produce quality work in complicated issues in a short period of time it's just the way things are um with the deadlines agencies can prioritize their work and that's exactly what you see if you look at the e-p-u-c um if the commission didn't have a deadline on 248a I would bet and I'm not a betting person I'm very risk averse in that way um with my money in that way I would bet you wouldn't see these things being issued you know the bulk of what comes out of the commission the reason that they do it is because they have to they have to decide what's important and how are we going to prioritize our work maybe it requires them to rethink how they're doing business very similar to what we did after the 1999 telecom um uh act was passed federally when the states were um I mean from all over the country filings were coming in um what were we to do um we could just continue business as usual and require every telecom company to provide but no it was what is the most important um thing that we need to protect the public um consistent with the fact that we've got all this workload and um uh we have other important things to do let's revise the system so can I ask another question so with okay is it lunchtime lunchtime uh the uh just with regard to um getting deadlines um accelerating this process do we um do you believe or think that we are creating any risk in terms of uh our overall grid and our ability to provide electricity to all of our monitors in other words creating any kind of imbalance in terms of this transition that might harm our utilities which are required to keep so um like there's well yeah there is a um so there are two sides of that um one is yeah they are required and there's state policy and everybody knows it and you ought to be organizing your work and your resources so that you can meet those objectives so for example if gmp did not install the equipment up in the shii for example um that it was supposed to that it told the public utility commission and iso and wingland it was going to install but didn't do it whose fault is shii right um so if the um if the utilities know that it is important for us to keep the earth's temperature below two degrees the rays would blow two degrees celsius within a certain amount of time or we're faced with just catastrophic consequences they have the protection from regulators to make sure that they're fulfilling those obligations if our and this is not a um perhaps a popular opinion but my own personal view is if it means that my electric bill is going to go up a little bit because my niece and nephew are going to have a planet where they can live safely then I'm really happy for my electric bill to go up a little bit to do that um I reinvested in a net metered system on my house so that we could do what we can to get off fossil fuels and thank you for some common for doing a great installation and using um local labor to do it my question is just around assessing we mean we have to think about what are the consequences of the actions that we take and are we taking them in a way that balances um the things that we're trying to do transform our utility or our our energy system and also take care of our model in many ways so that's really where my question is around I don't see deadlines when the testimony that I heard suggested that the PUC can actually accomplish these goals in most cases so um either you decide not to allow projects all together or if you're going to allow them you have some kind of predictable process customers, the public even folks that oppose these projects they have a right to expect a decision within a reasonable period of time for some folks and this is where I speak with my former staff attorney hat on folks that are caught up in a court case or litigation their lives are affected in ways that people may not understand and as a working as a staff attorney in the court of the court my job was to do everything I could so that the court could make a decision because somebody was waiting for that now those cases are usually redressing past harms as opposed to trying to you know as a gatekeeper for some permit process for installation of an infrastructure in that case in my view timelines are even more important because if you can't get the permit you can't you'll never achieve the policy objective now in the case that I showed you with the 202 day turn around okay that's all our project I think that what happened somebody forgot about it because finally I have a process we wait a little while and I write what I call this is Leslie Cadwell's terms and those who know me know I have all kinds of terms my nasty gram where's the permit hello did you forget now why would they forget well let me tell you why they would forget and I actually had an experience where I was at the department went to the Supreme Court and came back to the department a case that I had inherited from somebody before before I went to the court I came back from the court four years later and in my inbox I get a notice of appearance from an attorney in a case that I was like oh the Barton elector declaratory ruling what seven years had passed they forgot about it the PUC just completely forgot about it the case had gone packed up into public records had never been decided and it was because I looked I was like what happened with this I make phone calls and it turned out we eventually did get the decision but they forgot about it why did they forget the public utility commission does not have a case management process when I went to the public records request to find out how do you like when a case comes in what do you do with it who gets a sign what are the timelines what time do they have to review where does it have to go whose sites check these are things that the court has because the court is a just like the PUC is a body of statewide jurisdiction it doesn't have a discretionary docket it has to hear everything that comes before it with the exception of very very very few in order to manage its work among all five justices their law clerks and four staff attorneys there's a process and the court chief staff attorney he knows what's been filed how long it's been pending who's holding it up and why it's being held up and there's weekly check-ins with everybody at the court to make sure those deadlines the justices know I am the justice for these counties for these motions the motions for extraordinary relief those go to staff attorneys the staff attorneys in this area gets a sign the PUC at least based on the response I got from public records requests does not have any internal case management procedures to know who has what why it's held up how long it's taking there's no accountability and that's why if you're gonna this goes to if you're gonna have the PUC collect more fees because of from that meeting customers there's got to be some kind of accountability otherwise you are creating more work as someone's got to collect those fees manage those fees track those fees make sure they get paid without any without any benefit finally in terms of the deadlines provide also clear target for performance standards the committee should be aware that the commission will tell you that it resolves it meets its performance objectives by disposing of a certain amount of cases within a certain the cases know this is the cases that it decides within a certain time are decided within the prescribed timeframes what does that mean let me give you an example this is how the public utility commission reports its performance for budget purposes if they decide 10 cases and those 10 cases were all done within prescribed timeframes they get 100% I'm shouting sorry they get 100% but it doesn't tell you that they actually had a thousand cases they were supposed to decide they only decided 10 should they really get 100% for deciding only 10 of a thousand cases within the prescribed time no the public utility commission's performance standards need to account for how they're actually disposing what the disposition timelines are not how good they were at the few things they did okay and I verified that performance standard in a phone call with general counsel and and bishop because I when I read it I couldn't believe that that's what they were reporting to the legislature and to the governor was look how well we did for the few things we actually got done so if you have deadlines performance standard and hopefully a case management process where they can have their staff achieving the policy objectives that the legislature established so may I ask another question so you had me on the case management system but we have EPUC that's just a okay so tell me what's not where I love this question so let's get right into where this is like at my dream now you understand stars all over so and this was my fear when they adopted EPUC and after the first conversation I had with somebody there I was kind of afraid this is the direction they were going so let me briefly say in my pre-law school life I have actually I'm not a computer person I just love technology but I have been responsible for being on a team to computerize the last luxury hotel in Boston that went from a manual system to a computerized system I was on the team to implement that I've also was on responsible for implementing the document management system when I was general counsel at Velco that is a tool to interface filings it is not a case management system it is an external system how the EPUC interfaces with the external world very similar to the papers I filed if you file those in the court the court says you need to put that in these many copies it has to be done by this time that kind of thing is it a public filing cabinet is that what you're calling it it's basically a public filing it's a document management system there are things there are some reports that you could if you designed it well use to help you with these what I found in doing the stats and providing some support for Olivia you have to have a lot of time and a burning desire and an inability to stop work and enjoy your life with friends to figure out the best way to pull the data from EPUC as a member of the public I don't know what reporting the PUC gets from EPUC but in order for the tables that Olivia showed you that was probably four days of work for me to come up with that just pulling the numbers out of EPUC you couldn't do it with a fast and easy search the case management system would be or procedures would be how once it's filed what do they do with it where does it go internally what are the deadlines so for example when of course because I asked them for it and they said they don't have one this is what they gave me hearing officer evaluate performance evaluation forms the performance measures the budget we do 10 things really well and I was told I don't think you want our regular personnel policy state personnel policies sick leave and all that they don't have I don't know Greg can tell if they have procedures that govern how cases they are assigned who gets what what the time frames are reviewing is that an external requirement meaning a rule of civil procedure or the the 248A amended procedures order these are what a a person seeking the assistance of the commission or invoking the commission's jurisdiction what they must do and what the commission does in response what happens behind the scenes I have no idea there is no documentation unless they've held it from me I don't think so they're really awesome like that they are very responsive with public records requests and really helpful on the phone clarifying information but that's how I know they don't have a procedures that govern how they actually get their work done so turning to the last slide second class slide so the process that Olivia presented that I think came from the PUC the PUC said they need a minimum of 80 days to turn around a net metering petition or application that means they're saying that once all comments and all issues are resolved they need at least 50 days a minimum to decide it and I don't that's just not reasonable they should be able to turn it around in 30 if the person assigned reviews it and they have a template for a decision because there's boilerplate language in every single one of these the person writing the decision can actually get a head start in fact the party filing these for these 500 actually has to file a proposed decision so there's one already written for a while when the commission was still using word perfect because I'm a believer in doing everything I can to help my clients to remove barriers to get projects built it was part of my job at Velco was to remove obstacles to get sticks in the ground sort of speak I lost my train of thought word perfect thank you I actually bought word perfect and had the word perfect version I would have all of our proposed decisions done in word perfect so that they didn't have to worry about conversion when I found out that some hearing officers liked word perfect and others were using word it was like what format can I send it so that it's easy for you to get it written and decided so they only need 30 days thank you