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We’re coming up on high canning season! I’ve been giving my new steam juicer a workout. I pressure-canned some beef broth yesterday. The vegetables will be hitting soon! (If my garden makes it!)

Ball Blue BookIt’s a Ball Blue Book Project day! Today’s Ball Blue Book is sponsored by Carolyn at Walnut Spinney. Visit her here.

For a chance to win: Leave a comment on this post and let me know you want it. You can just put (BBB) at the end of your comment or otherwise note that you want to be in the draw. One winner will be drawn by random comment number to receive a Ball Blue Book. Eligible entry cut-off is midnight Eastern (U.S.) time tonight (July 1). This post will be updated with the winner by 9 a.m. Eastern (U.S.) time tomorrow (July 2). Return to this post to claim your book if your name is drawn.

Find out more about the Ball Blue Book Project and become a sponsor.

UPDATE 07/02/10: The winning comment number, drawn by random.org, is #102, Caitlin Albertson. Email me at CITRgiveaways(at)aol.com with your address for shipping!

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  1. 7-1
    2:20
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    BBB I would love this.;-)

    Sheila H from California
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  2. 7-1
    2:41
    am

    Oh, yes, I’d love to have it.

    Happy canning to you.

    Kristen
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  3. 7-1
    3:00
    am

    bbb please

    blueberrylu
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  4. 7-1
    5:19
    am

    Please enter me to win the BBB!

    Maureen
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  5. 7-1
    5:42
    am

    BBB

    glenda
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  6. 7-1
    6:01
    am

    I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Ball Blue Book days! :dancingmonster: Please pick me!

    Laura B. in Greenwood, IN
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  7. 7-1
    6:22
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    enter me! BBB

    stefinity
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  8. 7-1
    6:41
    am

    Would LOVE one!! BBB

    K
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  9. 7-1
    6:50
    am

    I’d like a BBB! :woof:

    Cyndi B
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  10. 7-1
    7:02
    am

    A BBB book would be a fantastic addition to my cookbook collection!

    Diane
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  11. 7-1
    7:18
    am

    I’d love to be entered for the Ball book. Tomorrow’s my b’day so that would be a nice win!

    Deb
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  12. 7-1
    7:29
    am

    I want a steam juicer too. BBB please.

    Connie of Ohio
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  13. 7-1
    7:47
    am

    I’d like to enter! BBB please

    Celeste
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  14. 7-1
    7:50
    am

    BBB for me, me, me Please!

    Jackie
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  15. 7-1
    7:51
    am

    I would love a Ball Blue Book, new to canning and need all of the help I can get.

    Eve Davis
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  16. 7-1
    7:57
    am

    I would love a BBB – But really I want to try a steamer juicer! maybe later in the when husband goes back to work!

    Deb
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  17. 7-1
    8:05
    am

    I just bought a pressure canner and am going to try some vegetable broth tomorrow, so BBB please! :yes:

    Snapper
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  18. 7-1
    8:09
    am

    I’d love a BBB!

    Janis
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  19. 7-1
    8:09
    am

    My garden is full.BBB, please!

    patrice
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  20. 7-1
    8:13
    am

    I love BBB day! Hoping to win it!

    Connie
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  21. 7-1
    8:17
    am

    I have 3 red tomatoes on my counter right now!! GO GARDEN!

    BBB Please
    Nikki

    Nikki
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  22. 7-1
    8:23
    am

    BBB Please :moo:

    Jill
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  23. 7-1
    8:24
    am

    Please,please BBB draw. The garden is thinking about production. Ha,there are 3 snow peas,2 tiny yellow peppers and all the tomato plants are blossoming.The carrots are being carrot-ish. The heat last week bolted the spinach. Sorta spinach, the squirrel :devil2: got to it first. I got about 4 leaves. I may in fact need the BBB this season, hope springs eternal.

    Jackie C
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  24. 7-1
    8:30
    am

    BBB – please, please, please!

    Amy
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  25. 7-1
    8:31
    am

    bbb!

    Nancy S.
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  26. 7-1
    8:32
    am

    Would love a new BBB. Thank you.

    Rose
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  27. 7-1
    8:35
    am

    that picture took me right back to my days as a little girl watching my mother can and freeze all kinds of things! this is my first year trying to freeze tomatos. it seems such a waste to jus6t toss the skins on the compost pile. any ideas for them? if i get the BBB, i’ll try canning next!

    diana sullivan
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  28. 7-1
    8:42
    am

    Love your blog. BBB

    Betty
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  29. 7-1
    8:49
    am

    BBB for me please!

    KentuckyFarmGirl
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  30. 7-1
    8:55
    am

    One of these days I’m gona win the BBB!!!

    marymac
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  31. 7-1
    8:58
    am

    BBB Please

    Emily
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  32. 7-1
    8:59
    am

    I want a BBB! Please!

    Rebecca V.
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  33. 7-1
    8:59
    am

    oh! pick me! pick me! Thanks Suzanne and Carolyn!

    Linda T.
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  34. 7-1
    8:59
    am

    I would love the BBB!!!

    Mary from Baton Rouge
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  35. 7-1
    9:01
    am

    :happyflower: I’d be as happy as this blue flower if I could win the BBB!

    Mrs. Turkey

    Celia Allen
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  36. 7-1
    9:05
    am

    :hungry:

    I would love to have a Blue Ball Book! If I can’t have a BBB, could I please have a pony?

    Marjorie Wolson
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  37. 7-1
    9:06
    am

    My season is well on it’s way. I spent part of yesterday peeling tomatoes and getting ready for salsa….BBB

    TXLady
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  38. 7-1
    9:10
    am

    I am sure if I won the book it would help with the enabling… I am now on the look out for a steam juicer! Love this blog! (BBB) :snuggle:

    E. A. Filip
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  39. 7-1
    9:12
    am

    BBB please. Thanks!

    Lacey
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  40. 7-1
    9:15
    am

    BBB please :purpleflower:

    Melinda
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  41. 7-1
    9:16
    am

    Just in time… I’ve canned my first batch of tomato sauce and my first batch of bread and butter pickles. Would love to win the BBB to add to my recipe collection.

    Anke
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  42. 7-1
    9:20
    am

    I would love to have a BBB!!!!

    Kelly Bowland
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  43. 7-1
    9:27
    am

    I am so afraid of pressure canning that I desperatly need this book to learn what to do and not do. I want the Ball Blue Book.

    Amy Manwell
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  44. 7-1
    9:28
    am

    BBB, Please!

    Jeannie
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  45. 7-1
    9:36
    am

    I would love a BBB.

    northcountrygirl
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  46. 7-1
    9:41
    am

    BBB Please!
    Thank you!

    claudia w
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  47. 7-1
    9:44
    am

    I would LOVE one!! BBB

    Suzanne
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  48. 7-1
    9:45
    am

    I would love to have one!! BBB

    Maria
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  49. 7-1
    9:47
    am

    Thank you Carolyn and Suzanne!
    BBB please

    Marianne G
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  50. 7-1
    9:51
    am

    BBB. Love to can!

    Glenie
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  51. 7-1
    9:52
    am

    I’d like to win!

    MousE
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  52. 7-1
    9:56
    am

    I could really use a BBB!

    Amanda
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  53. 7-1
    10:01
    am

    BBB please!

    Rossann
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  54. 7-1
    10:02
    am

    I would love to have a book pretty please pick me!!!!! :wave:

    Linda Goble
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  55. 7-1
    10:05
    am

    I would love to have a blue book. :sun:
    It is canning season and I really could use a BBB.

    Karen Green
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  56. 7-1
    10:07
    am

    Can’t wait til veggies are in & can start canning…..of the simple pleasures – include me in the BBB

    mim
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  57. 7-1
    10:07
    am

    I keep on trying! lol BBB

    Nancy
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  58. 7-1
    10:11
    am

    I’ve been canning from recipes found willy-nilly on the internet. I would LOVE the canning “bible.” BBB

    Suzette
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  59. 7-1
    10:11
    am

    The best part about canning season is enjoying the canned goods over the winter! BBB

    Kathy in FL
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  60. 7-1
    10:14
    am

    BBB. Please. I really enjoy your blog.

    Diane
    The Library Lady

    The Library Lady
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  61. 7-1
    10:39
    am

    BBB, please.
    Wonderful blog!

    Sandy
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  62. 7-1
    10:45
    am

    maybe this is my lucky day! BBB

    Carol Campbell
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  63. 7-1
    10:45
    am

    I won’t give up! Yes, I want the BBB!

    Richelle
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  64. 7-1
    10:46
    am

    Please enter me in BBB draw.

    Thank you

    Rose H
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  65. 7-1
    10:47
    am

    Would love a BBB, please.

    Linda C.
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  66. 7-1
    10:53
    am

    We’re just starting to can, so I’d love the BBB!!

    Su
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  67. 7-1
    10:59
    am

    BBB please!!

    Patty
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  68. 7-1
    11:06
    am

    Got a Mehu Liisa 4 years ago and love it. BBB please.

    Barbie
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  69. 7-1
    11:11
    am

    I didn,t know you could can broth! does it have to be refrigerated? BBB Please :clover:

    geena22
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  70. 7-1
    11:15
    am

    BBB Please :clover:

    pdelainey
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  71. 7-1
    11:24
    am

    BBB

    Jeanne Lewis
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  72. 7-1
    11:26
    am

    Just bought my best friend a canner for her birthday, so this would be the perfect complement to it!
    BBB please!

    Terri Draeger
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  73. 7-1
    11:32
    am

    pretty please! BBB

    Jessica
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  74. 7-1
    11:44
    am

    BBB – pretty please?

    Cindy Serry
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  75. 7-1
    11:50
    am

    Would LOVE to win the BBB! Thank you for offering this again.
    maybe the 3rd time’s the charm.

    Annegi
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  76. 7-1
    11:59
    am

    No, canned beef or chicken stock doesn’t have to be refrigerated–that’s why you can it! It has to be canned in a pressure canner, of course, NOT a hot water bath canner.

    Suzanne McMinn
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  77. 7-1
    12:03
    pm

    BBB–thanks for doing these, Suzanne, and thanks to the sponsors.

    Mariah
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  78. 7-1
    12:05
    pm

    BBB for me?

    Abiga/Karen
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  79. 7-1
    12:20
    pm

    Oh pressure canner, how I long for thee!

    But in the meanwhile, I’ll settle for a BBB. :)

    Gini
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  80. 7-1
    12:31
    pm

    Would love a BBB – thanks and happy canning.

    BrendaE
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  81. 7-1
    12:43
    pm

    I’d love to have the Ball Blue Book! PS: I’m new here and am loving reading all of your stuff! :)

    Lise
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  82. 7-1
    12:46
    pm

    Thanks to Carolyn and Suzanne!! I’d love to win!! BBB

    Debbie in Memphis
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  83. 7-1
    12:51
    pm

    need that BBB

    Thanks

    sueallie
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  84. 7-1
    1:00
    pm

    BBB for me!

    Can’t wait to try steam juicing for myself.

    Thank you.

    Kathi N
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  85. 7-1
    1:32
    pm

    oooohhhh- I would love the BBB

    Christa H.
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  86. 7-1
    1:40
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    This is the first year we’ve had a garden big enough to even think about using a canner. I don’t even have one yet! I’d love to have a BBB to get me started! Thanks for your wonderful site, Suzanne. I just found you a couple of weeks ago and have been here daily ever since.

    Vicki
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  87. 7-1
    1:44
    pm

    Please enter me in the BBB giveaway – I’d love to be able to start canning some of my garden produce

    Debbie
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  88. 7-1
    1:50
    pm

    BBB, please! And thank you!

    Melanie
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  89. 7-1
    2:04
    pm

    Bringing produce out of the garden by the buckets full. BBB would be mighty handy for some new ideas.

    mommafox
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  90. 7-1
    2:06
    pm

    BBB please

    Trina
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  91. 7-1
    2:09
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    I am so afraid I won’t have a garden this year. We’re trying so hard, but Mother Nature is really not helping. But, I will can water if I have to!!! BBB me please!

    farmershae
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  92. 7-1
    2:41
    pm

    BBB! I bought a pressure canner on Tuesday, and this would be very very helpful!

    Mamamalama
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  93. 7-1
    2:59
    pm

    I would love to own a BBB!

    Heather from NC
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  94. 7-1
    3:17
    pm

    BBB is the best canning book to have. I tell everyone interested to buy one.

    I’d take an updated version.

    Renae
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  95. 7-1
    4:04
    pm

    I would love to win the BBB. I have a garden full of veggies!!

    Shelley
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  96. 7-1
    4:11
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    yes, Suzanne, I know exactly what you mean by “high canning season”. July brought wild cherries, blackberries, tomatoes, and pickles when I had my farm. I sometimes thought I would lose my mind but at the same time reveled in it. My favorite ~ pickles. something about pickles just feathered my pillow. I loved staring at the jars of them lined up on my counter after all had popped. oh, what a wonderful world.
    BBB

    Miss Becky
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  97. 7-1
    4:15
    pm

    BBB – please, please, please!

    Banana
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  98. 7-1
    4:21
    pm

    love to win the BBB

    Teri
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  99. 7-1
    4:44
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    I want a steam juicer too.

    Also, I’m so out of it. I registered on your Ball Blue Book page and now folks are asking me to be their friends and I don’t even know how to log back in and if I do, how do I accept their friend request. It’s all so confusing and getting stressful. Help!!!

    BBB please.

    Susan at Charm of the Carolines
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  100. 7-1
    4:54
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    Looks like we’ll be canning peas next week.

    BBB

    Shirley
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  101. 7-1
    5:25
    pm

    Exciting another BBB day… enter me please.

    nichole
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  102. 7-1
    5:29
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    I’d love the BBB! I’m just starting out in canning and took a class through our local extension office. It was great and I learned a ton.

    Caitlin Albertson
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  103. 7-1
    5:44
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    Suzanne you are so bad for me…I love it!
    Ordered my steamer/juicer this past saturday and can’t hardly wait for it to get here. There are whole plums and blueberries taking up way to much space in the freezer.
    Please put me in for the BBB drawing. I obviously need it, since I didn’t know that coleslaw could be canned!

    jan~n~tn
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  104. 7-1
    5:59
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    I would love to have a Ball Blue Book! I just started canning last year and have only used recipes from the internet. It would be so great to have a hard copy book to refer to!

    BBB!

    Shelley L.
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  105. 7-1
    6:54
    pm

    BBB

    Would like to have the Ball Blue Book

    denise moats
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  106. 7-1
    7:12
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    BBB Suzanne. We are going on a road trip just when my razberries will be coming on. I have not been saving strawberries though cause we will be gone so I pop all those in my mouth. Sometimes I share.

    Senta Sandberg
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  107. 7-1
    8:08
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    It’s not preserving season here in NZ, but I’d love a BBB to drool over when warming my feet on the heater.

    Charlotte
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  108. 7-1
    8:42
    pm

    My canner bobble-thingy looks just like the one in the picture….BBB :hug:

    Patsy Melton
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  109. 7-1
    8:44
    pm

    Suzanne, I would love to win a BBB! Thanks to Carolyn for sponsoring the day!

    Fran P.
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  110. 7-1
    8:53
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    I just bought a pressure canner from ebay, it’s a weighted gauge one & will be starting to use it this week! I cannot wait! So excited!! :) BBB *crossing fingers*

    Melanie Burbage
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  111. 7-1
    9:28
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    Love your blog. Read it every day. BBB. Thanks.

    Karen Patrick
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  112. 7-1
    9:39
    pm

    BBB…ME ME ME!! Please ;) :sheep:

    Jaime
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  113. 7-1
    10:18
    pm

    BBB What do I win?

    Kathie
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  114. 7-1
    11:08
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    :wave: love your website, just signed up. recommended by a friend. love to have a BBB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shimmy: susan

    Susan Catlin
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  115. 7-1
    11:17
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    Would love to have the BBB! Thanks

    Dianne S.
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  116. 7-1
    11:34
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    How wonderful!! I am so ready to start canning! BBB ME, Please!

    Cathy

    floweringmama
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  117. 7-2
    8:21
    am

    Ball Blue Book Please!

    Billy
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