Hey all!
I haven't been around for a while. Our weather here was really nice for a short while but the last few weeks it hasn't been overly hot and fairly windy every day. Kind of an odd August. Not so great for swimming.
We have a garden and today my husband and I made a batch of dill pickles. We had also bought three boxes of peaches over the weekend and we canned some of those today. Some of them aren't ripe enough so I'm sure there is more peach canning for us in the near future. We also have tomatoes comimg out of the garden and we always can a lot of those. We love tomatoes throughout the winter, for making tomato juice and soup. I don't think a lot of people can anymore. I don't love the process of canning but I really like the end product--having all that good stuff through the winter. Luckily for me, my husband helps me do all the canning, it's difficult for me to lift the hot jar rack our of the scorching hot canner, so he does come in handy! We have entered our canning products in our annual local fair and we have won several ribbons. That's always kind of exciting.
