I canned several pints of peaches yesterday evening after arriving home from my family reunion. Cliff and I made a quick trip to the livestock auction this morning; then I fixed dinner: butternut squash and stir-fried zucchini, with a salad on the side. As luck would have it, we saw a couple of little girls selling produce at a crossroads on the way home from the auction, and they had some zucchini that was perfect... two for one dollar. I bought four, and tonight I finally got to make my ratatouille.
I have tomatoes to can, and only seven more quart jars. I guess I'll use pint jars once those are filled; it was not my original plan, but things happen, and I refuse to buy new quart jars. I like putting the peaches in pints, though. It makes just enough for Cliff and me to have one serving apiece.
I have nine butternut squashes harvested, and many many more to come. It's a good thing we like them!
Here's a snippet of things seen at the Marshallville, Iowa, tractor show. It shows a bit of corn-shelling at the first, and then some straw-baling, back when a bale of straw wasn't that easy to come by. It'll probably bore most of you, but I found it interesting. Besides, I'm too tired to come up with anything more.
You are a busy lady. When everything gets ripe you have to do something with it so good luck.
ReplyDeleteI noticed the background on that video. the sky is so pretty and its clear as far as the eye can see. Nice!
ReplyDeletebig lots has cheaper mason jars. I wanted a few but they sell them by a case of 8 I think
ReplyDeleteYeah, Mike. But what makes me sick is that I gave half my jars away last year, knowing I'd never can stuff the way I did years ago. And I did keep enough, but my sister-in-law helped herself to my jars to make pickled beets. She didn't do it maliciously, she just didn't realize she was running me short on jars.
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