Thursday, October 16, 2008

The end is in sight!

Travis and I have spent many hours and long nights this fall canning, a variety of things. We did 13 bushels of peaches yum!!!!, 2 bushels of pears, 10 bushels of apples,(with the help of travis' brother and wife) 166 quart jars of soup,(with the help of travis' parents and brother and wife) and 16 pints of salsa. We used the water we had cooked the apples in all day and made it into juice as well it was really good!
We dried some bananas, peaches and pears. The dried fruit makes great snacks for the kids and they love it!
We also froze some peaches, and raspberries for our daily fruit shakes.
The only thing left to do is our grape juice.
It is such a wonderful sight to go down to our storage room and see it full of all this yummy food.

7 comments:

Katie staten said...

Way to go. I wish we were closer so we could join in on the fun too.

Jamie said...

You are one motivated woman. ahha.. I can't even stand to peel a couple peaches. ahah.. You will definitely have enjoy all of your hard work!

Charee B Mcclellan said...

glad that you found me, i had been wondering where you were in this small little world. i havent seen you for like forever!! will be great to see what you guys are up to...take care.

Emilee said...

wow!i am so impressed! i donte ven know how to do most of that!

Emilee said...

hey jen, we really should meet in bountiful and have elisa come too, your area is right in the middle! any good parks nearby?? anything cool to do?
i think elisa can get together between 12 and 3 about...

Charee B Mcclellan said...

hey i just started a skyview1999.blogspot.com blog! check it out and sign in on the bottom. pass the word to fellow 99ers and lets all keep posted.

Trisha said...

Hi Jen!
I am so happy to have found your blog! How are you?!!

Your family is adorable and I hope you don't mind if I add you to my blog list so I can keep up with you!