Stawberries and Strawberries

Yesterday, the day after we got home from our camping trip. We headed out to pick our strawberries for the first time this year. It was a very nice day to be picking strawberries so off we went to the strawberry patch.

5 willing strawberry pickers.

22 pails of strawberries!

5 helpers, helping make strawberry jam and strawberry sauce.

56 cups of sugar

6 cups of clear gel

20 containers of strawberry jam and ......

26 containers of strawberry sauce for those yummy yogarts.

This makes for another year of very yummy strawberry jam and sauce.

Canning Corn!

Well even though it's not as warm as it was just two weeks ago our corn did get ripe and we now have been busy with freezing it and putting it away for the winter.

Picking corn from the corn patch.

We were again blessed with lots of very yummy corn.

We peel the corn in the pasture and that way the cows can come and enjoy it to.

So we had lots of friends join us while we were working.

The bull was really quite friendly and would actually eat corn right out of the wheel barrow.

Yummy,yummy

Then we take it to the garage and wash it,cut it from the cob,and then bring it in the house and bake it and put it in bags to freeze,and then it's all ready for enjoying during the winter.

Making Grape Juice

Today while Mom and Dad were gone Rita and I canned grape juice,this was the first year that we got our own grapes and the first year that we canned grape juice,so we'll see how every one likes it.

It was beautiful to see the grapes growing on the vines.

All the grapes inside.
Rita having a great time working:)
And this is how it looks now,we are not sure if this is how it should look but its to late to make any changes now. We hope everyone will enjoy it.

Canning Apple Pie Filling

Here we are again,canning something,but we like canning,and in the winter everyone really enjoys eating it so you just gotta do it.

Well last week we picked the apples and then we waited for a rainy day so that we could can them. Now that we got that rainy day we canned them:)

Picking the apples.

We were very blessed to get lots of apples this year.

Then the canning began the darker stuff is apple pie filling with apple pie spice in it

and the lighter stuff is plain apple pie filling.

Ruth and Raymond kept the slicers and peelers going hard,

(having a race every now and then helped them to keep going)

Rita scooping the filling into jars.
Then when everything is done it's all ready to go into the pantry.

Praise God for all the wonderful fruits and vegetables he has blessed us with to last us through another winter.

Canning Corn

Monday morning we picked,husked and canned our corn.

As always there were willing helpers. Randy being goofy as he is helping. Once again there was a bountiful crop.

Raymond is measuring the salt into each jar.

Monkey see,monkey do! If you take a picture of me,I will take one of you.

Ruth filling the jars. With lots of helpers we can have the job done in no time. We work assembly line style. So once we are done washing the corn is almost all in the jars as well.

After the corn is picked they chop it off,load it up and haul it to the cows for a treat they enjoy.