I have done more canning this year than I have in a long time; 144 bottles of peaches;50 + of jam, 170+ of grape juice; 85 of applesauce. Here are pictures of the latest escapades.
Mel, Dave, and Katie came especially for this 2nd annual event. We all dressed for the occasion. Melanie won the best dressed award with her blue man shorts that hung below her ever growing belly, soccer socks donated by Ben, an oversized t-shirt that covered Carson sponsored by Vance, it was accentuated by an apron.
Melanie, Katie, and I worked for a few hours on it and had to call in reinforcements. All seven of us worked feverishly for about 3 hours to get the job done. Ben was the apple sorter and washer, Vance and Katie the cutters, David, Dave, and Melanie the mushers at the Victorio Strainer, and I was the overseer running the canner and other little details.
Although we all helped with clean-up, Vance did most of it, especially the dishes and there was A LOT to do.
It was one of those moments that created memories that I will think about every time we have applesauce.
1 comment:
YAY for applesauce;-) Yummy in my tummy. Sorry I missed the weekend, it looked like tons of fun!!!
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