Can I use the basket from my water-bath canner on bottom and put new tray on top?
Yep.
Something that makes canning easier is to use a weight on the canner for controlling the pressure. Heat still needs turned down as the canner heats up, but if you can hear it spurt once in a while, you can...
I'm not quite sure about your elec panel, whether there is a GFCI there, but they aren't designed to work more than one on a circuit, so if that's the problem, just leave the one out of the outlet.
If they are afraid of a lawsuit, they will probably need to get sued for not selling the mags before they change their policy. Sometimes ignorance+authority=stupidity.
We used to keep bees. It was pretty interesting noting the different flavors from different plants. Melon honey tasted like cucumbers, soybean honey tasted like soybeans. Buckwheat honey is real dark brown and sugars quickly. I used to love eating big chunks of comb. As to allergies, I became...
H&R .32 in S&W Long. Real piece of crap. But I learned how to fix it, and would carry it to the bean field for groundhogs when I was a kid. Even got one. I also learned that some guns are made more to sell than shoot. When I grew up, I traded it off and lived happily ever after.
Figure out the wattage of your most important appliances (volts X amps = watts) and go from there. A smaller unit can power a couple appliances at a time if you keep the other breakers shut off.
Got bored squirrel hunting once and was watching a titmouse fly off a branch and come back. Kept it up. Finally figured he was catching mosquitoes. Decided to test his eyesight with a .22 and sure enough, every time I would shoot past him, he would watch the bullet. Never could catch it though...
Name of gunshop: Wabash Valley Shooting Supply. The gun wasn't supposed to shoot anything but blanks, but a #8 or 9 shot would shoot. Doug got the gun from me and claimed he got $350 for it. Hard to tell what he told that guy or if he actually got what he said. He was pretty windy. (Also claimed...