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11/16/13, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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What do you and your partner enjoy working on
together?
For us it's canning.I am grateful we can work together on something that makes our lives easier, saves us money and helps us eat healthier.
Yesterday on his Sam's club run dh picked up a big ham that he wanted to can so it's ready for easy sandwich filling as ham salad.
He was working an earlier shift today than normal since he went to days. This afternoon I cut up the ham for: big chunks to fill wide mouth pints, small chunks for soup. By the time he got home everything was ready to have the rims wiped and lids put on. He took over. 
He fired up the canners. We have two canners going right now with ham, bean and ham soup, split pea soup and extra soup broth.
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11/16/13, 05:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Idaho
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JUST about everything. Including the garden and canning.
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11/16/13, 10:07 PM
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My name is not Alice
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: On a dirt road in Missouri
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My partner...is..my brother...but eewwwww, let's not go there. As for my wife, I just taught her to air up her own tire, which was pretty cool, but I really think she knew how to do it herself all these years, and was just playing me like a banjo.
What we really like doing together, is discovering those things in which we would be helpless by ourselves and desperately need each other to do well or correctly. Surviving and getting by tops that list. It encompasses everything you read about here on HT. Today was all about ordering cheese making supplies, because it was rainy outside.
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11/16/13, 10:42 PM
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Very Dairy
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Dysfunction Junction
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We do everything together when I'm not working. Gardening, canning, firewood, home improvements, scavenging for kewl stuff at yard sales and thrift stores. We're pretty much inseparable. 
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11/16/13, 11:58 PM
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we split wood together, and run a music festival together. and raise a family together.
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11/17/13, 01:30 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Missouri
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We do everything together now that we're retired. Our favs are gardening and cooking together.
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11/18/13, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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I love how many couples can, cook and garden together.
Due to my increasinly bad reaction to poisoin ivy I now pretty much just stick to trying to grow a few veggies, herbs and flowers. I don't help with trimming and cutting brush and shrub.
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11/18/13, 10:18 AM
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: NE Arkansas
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Hunting, state park trips& camping(Petit-Jean in Arkansas in particular)rabbit chores
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11/18/13, 10:21 AM
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Location: michigan
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My Dh helps me cann too,esp,green beans. He will sit with a bowl for hours on the sofa snapping them for me. He eats a lot of green beans.We do everything together when he is home. I don't know what it is about working with wood tho-he gets real impatient , so I do as much building as I can by myself. He's a mechanic and does all kinds of metal work so I suspect it's the reason. We went to Lowes to get me a set of fancy legs for me to make a Harvest table. His eyes glazed over-but when we passed the tools,I showed him the ones that I'd like for me for Christmas-That perked him up!
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11/18/13, 12:26 PM
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We play Boggle together, among other things.
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11/18/13, 01:07 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Southwest Ohio
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For 22 years of marriage Lee Ann and I have renovated old houses together. Our current house (the Creepy Gothic Mansion) is number eleven for us. We both work regular jobs, but evenings and weekends we are in harness together, scraping, painting, plumbing, tiling, landscaping, roofing, wallpapering, pouring concrete, building fences and so on. I don't sew drapes and she doesn't do electrical, but in all other things related to our house work we are equal partners and helpmates.
And about five nights a week, it's Scrabble - yes, we live a wild and crazy life.
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11/18/13, 05:46 PM
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We don't share the same career so we are separate in that. There was a time when we worked together and it was great. There was a time when our careers kept us apart for months at a time. That was great as well.
When we are together we do everything together - neither of us was brought up to believe in gender specific jobs. Or we do nothing together. We just spent 9 days together doing nothing. It was wonderful.
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11/18/13, 06:20 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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We enjoy all manner of things together but actually working together? He and I work very differently so usually we work in parallel. I'll work with the animals while he works in the garden, things like that.
What we actually enjoy working on together is his novel and other writing projects. We can talk for hours about plot points, story progression, character arcs and cultures. It is a joy to be able to assist in any way I can with such works.
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11/18/13, 06:28 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
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LOL - we do everything together if we are not at work. We tag team pretty well on all the household and farm chores. And I can enjoy just about anything when I am in such awesome company :-)
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11/18/13, 07:19 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: NorthEast Ohio
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We enjoy cooking together, working on the MINIs, gardening and numerous other things. We do almost everything together when we are not at work.
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11/19/13, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Desert of So. NV
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Cooking, canning, gardening. I would help more with stuff like mowing and chain-sawing, stuff like that, but I just am not a big strong gal. Plus, he's a mechanic so I would slow him down on most things!
Planning the gardens, picking which plants, putting together the seed buying list. Planting the seeds in the early spring. I do most of the in and out of the seedling trays as he's at work, but we do love the gardening together very much.
Harvesting the stuff, cleaning it up. We really enjoy our weekend breakfasts together - he loves to cook so he usually makes those!
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11/20/13, 12:09 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: W. Oregon
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Honey do list, she comes up with it I do it. lol
Not really, we do a lot together. Most of the time it takes both of us to remember what it was we were going to do today....James
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11/20/13, 12:15 PM
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Lovin' my Fam
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Central Pa
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Us too! We love to can together and garden- well I try to- he is the one with the green thumb!
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