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Today I am planning on doing APPLES, APPLES, and MORE APPLES! I got 3 100# feed bags 3/4 full and one 5 gallon bucket of apples to can up. For free of course! I plan on canning up applesauce, pie filling, and cider. I am going to use up the last of my half gallon jars for the cider/juice.
A friend of mine from church (that gave me the dozen half gallon jars) gave me another 2 dozen quart jars this past week. She also gave me a dozen mayo jars but I am still not sure if I want to use them. She said she pressure cans with the mayo jars up to 5 pounds of pressure! She is also going to sell me 4 dozen jars for $2.25 a dozen on Wednesday! Her DH is trying to talk her into selling a LOT of jars and so far she is not wanting to part with them.
I think I still have another bushel of tomatoes out in my garden that I need to turn into chili. I also need to dig up the other three rows of potatoes. I got two 5 gallon buckets worth out of the two rows we already dug up.
As soon as I am done with the apples I need to sew, sew, sew! My oldest has his FCF camp out on Wednesday and I have not got anything finished but 2 pairs of mittens! Tomorrow he is going to my MIL's for the day to cut wood all day. I feel like he is not going to get much schoolwork done this week. But, then I remind myself that canning season will be over soon and we will be huddled in the house for the long winter months and he can do some extra work then.
I just have this feeling like I need to can all of the food I can get my hands on and I do not want to leave any jars setting empty! I think I might go to a pick your own farm and get some pears and do up a couple bushels of them if I have some left over empty jars. My pantries and freezer is packed to the gills right now and it is coming up on deer season and I have 4 roos I need to send off to freezer camp.
I feel like I have so much to do and all I want to do is crawl into bed because I have a dull headache!
We are also trying to decide if we want to buy a truck and camper off of my parents. My mom will need the money for an expense that could be coming up soon and we kind of need...more like want...a truck to haul wood and pull our trailer with. I am really wanting a camper for three years from now when my oldest turns 18 so he can stay in it in our side yard. He can have his 'own' place to live yet still be debt free and home. The truck and the camper are both in a nice clean condition. Plus we can make payments to my mom.
P.S. It was the brakes, tires, front end alignment and I think some tie rods for the $1300 price tags....I think! LOL!
Ok, time to get busy!
A friend of mine from church (that gave me the dozen half gallon jars) gave me another 2 dozen quart jars this past week. She also gave me a dozen mayo jars but I am still not sure if I want to use them. She said she pressure cans with the mayo jars up to 5 pounds of pressure! She is also going to sell me 4 dozen jars for $2.25 a dozen on Wednesday! Her DH is trying to talk her into selling a LOT of jars and so far she is not wanting to part with them.
I think I still have another bushel of tomatoes out in my garden that I need to turn into chili. I also need to dig up the other three rows of potatoes. I got two 5 gallon buckets worth out of the two rows we already dug up.
As soon as I am done with the apples I need to sew, sew, sew! My oldest has his FCF camp out on Wednesday and I have not got anything finished but 2 pairs of mittens! Tomorrow he is going to my MIL's for the day to cut wood all day. I feel like he is not going to get much schoolwork done this week. But, then I remind myself that canning season will be over soon and we will be huddled in the house for the long winter months and he can do some extra work then.
I just have this feeling like I need to can all of the food I can get my hands on and I do not want to leave any jars setting empty! I think I might go to a pick your own farm and get some pears and do up a couple bushels of them if I have some left over empty jars. My pantries and freezer is packed to the gills right now and it is coming up on deer season and I have 4 roos I need to send off to freezer camp.
I feel like I have so much to do and all I want to do is crawl into bed because I have a dull headache!
We are also trying to decide if we want to buy a truck and camper off of my parents. My mom will need the money for an expense that could be coming up soon and we kind of need...more like want...a truck to haul wood and pull our trailer with. I am really wanting a camper for three years from now when my oldest turns 18 so he can stay in it in our side yard. He can have his 'own' place to live yet still be debt free and home. The truck and the camper are both in a nice clean condition. Plus we can make payments to my mom.
P.S. It was the brakes, tires, front end alignment and I think some tie rods for the $1300 price tags....I think! LOL!
Ok, time to get busy!
Maybe I can talk my oldest into making it for me next summer! He would just need the wood for real walls!
I got one shirt done! I didn't think I was ever going to figure that collar out! DS was almost going to his thing nekkid! Or at least shirtless! LOL! Now I am starting another shirt! Hopefully this one will go much easier! 
