What We've Been Up To

Those blog posts I promised? They're coming. Really. It's just that we've been busy with these (36 liters of them in total, less maybe a few pounds which didn't quite make in the canner because I had hungry mice to feed):






Doing this (this is my mom, helping me in my endeavours as always):





To end up with these:








44 in total. Not bad.

The running total for food squirreled away for the winter is:

44 jars of peaches
50 lbs of frozen blueberries picked by yours truly
26 lbs of green beans bought from a local farmer

On the agenda next week (after I've recovered from the peaches and the kids' second birthday party): tomatoes. Lots of 'em. And maybe freezing carrots. My husband still thinks I'm nuts.