Thursday, August 21, 2008
What a day....
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I have been canning all day! We also started school on Monday so today was mostly catch up and independent study and writing practice for the two little ones. William had reading, writing, and such. Anyway...... Yesterday was our first real picking of tomatoes. I canned 12 qts of salsa today. I have two pans of sauce on the stove to process probably tommorrow am! Also in my pursuit of lids this afternoon I came upon a organic farm out here near our house. They had a sign for peaches. I bought 3 1/2 bushels of peaches and I have those to freeze, dry and can this next few days too! Pretty good price to $6-8 a 1/2 bushel for organic peaches....depends on the size of the peaches. The lady was super sweet and also GAVE me a ton of dairy products. They were going out of date like tommorrow. She gave me 6 1/2 gallon jugs of heavy whipping cream. I came home and made a ton of butter. It is all in the freezer. 3 big containers of raspberry yogurt. I promptly made them into freezer yogurt pops. I have them all freezing right now! 1 gallon of milk.....the kids will have that gone in a minute. Also like 12 little cartons of chocolate milk( you know the kind you got when you had hot lunch at school). I put them in the freezer too! Can pull them out for picnics at the park for the kids. I plan on buying a lot more produce from this gal when we need it. She was so kind and generous. The house smells so good on the days that I have cooked salsa down.......I probably wont make it to bed, until later, but oh well...... |
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