Showing posts with label canning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canning. Show all posts

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Apples...

Last Saturday we took our annual trip to Cranes and picked apples...







Easton was the muscle man, pulling all the apples by himself...

It was such a hot day outside and our air-conditioning doesn't work in the van, so poor Anaya was sweating like usual! 
65 lbs. of apples later, we then tackled the apple sauce making...

 Look at my eager helpers...
 Lots of work for...not so much applesauce, but it tastes so much better!  The verdict is still out as to if it's worth it or not...

Saturday, August 14, 2010

helpers...


Many hands do make light work! We froze umpteen bags of blueberries, and corn.  I also tried my hand at canning pickles, and blackberry freezer jam.  My mom and Grama came and helped us earlier this summer to make strawberry freezer jam.  I plan to do peaches and applesauce yet too.  Then we should be all set, for a while I guess, or maybe not, these kids can eat!  I shudder to think of our grocery bill in a few short years!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Salsa...


My friend Lee has been such a blessing in so many ways, one of which is when she shares the bounty of her garden! Tomatoes! So I went to work at making salsa, since it was kinda last minute, I was on my own(no time to plan for Mom and Grama to come up!) I was saying that it was a lot harder to do this alone, and that I was missing the extra hands and Ryan suggested I enlist the boys to help, and boy did they! I was dunking them in boiling water and as fast as I could get them out they were peeling and chopping them! They thought it was fun for a little while, then by the time they were fizzling out on me~we were already done! Many hands really do make light work, even when the hands are small!

Thank you Lord for my hard working little men! And my big one too! He (Ryan) has been such a blessing to me as he helps so much with the kids, and the housework! This year as I was dreading the school year, (knowing how far behind I can get on the housework) he stepped in and has helped so much (even more than usual!) I certainly do have the BEST HUSBAND EVER! Thanks Ry~I love you! And thanks for the SWEET post you wrote on my birthday~you're AWESOME!!!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Peaches!

Look at all those peaches! No, I did not do them all by myself, in fact I did very little! My Mom and Grama came up and they peeled and sliced them, I was in charge of the syrup and the canner. I did make a couple batches of peach jam all by my big girl self though!
35 quarts of peaches, and 2 batches of jam! YAY! I am so glad that is done! I don't mind canning since I always have Mom and Grama to help me, if I had to do it myself, it may not get done! It is fun to have all 4 generations in the kitchen working hard (they work harder than I do, because of that 4th generation!) Fun wonderful memories!
I received some spools of ribbon from a friend as part of Anaya's baby gift, and look at what I made!(yes, all by my big girl self!) It isn't perfect, like the one I got for a gift, but it works for Anaya's hair. I can't wait to get more ribbon and make some more!
Well, even with all of the peaches and bow making, I managed to do two partial days of school. At one point I was trying to teach the 3 older boys something (?) while Anaya stood with her face pressed against the glass door screaming away, I was trying to press on with my last bit of instruction when the boys all started laughing and asking if they could go pick her up! So I still have to figure out how to keep her from stealing the show, but all in all it went rather well!