The Busy Season
Tomatoes are finally ripe and most mornings find us at the farm harvesting tomatoes. Then back home for a quick bite to eat and shower before dropping Proeun off at work. After nap time time to can said tomatoes. Yes this year I learned to can. All year I was collecting jars and I finally bought a canner. Now our basement shelves are steadily filling with not only tomatoes but apricots, pears, peaches, nectarines, rhubarb sauce, pickled green beans and apple sauce. Today I was canning pears and apple sauce. Hourly wages definitely don't apply here. But it is such a sense of accomplishment. I'll write more soon.
It's so crazy and fun this time of year, isn't it?
Since Friday, I've baked 2 loaves of bread, canned 14 cups of grape jelly (free grapes from a neighbor), picked apples at an orchard, canned 14 pts applesauce and 5 cups apple butter, canned 22 qts peaches, and canned 5 cups peach honey. I'd never done peaches or apple butter before. I've got rhubarb raspberry jam, rhubarb strawberry jam, strawberry jam, and 18 qts dill pickles already waiting on the shelves. I need to do another bushel of pickles and a couple bushels of tomatoes soon. I'll keep making applesauce all fall. I think I'll skip pears this year since your connection fell through.
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