This blog is part garden diary, part chicken-raising diary and part child-rearing diary. All in all, a way to blab away about everything that's going on in my life. An experiment in self-discipline to see if I can get it together enough to keep updating and cataloging on time, regardless of what is going on. All this in hopes of having some record of the goings on here in my Little Patch of Crazy....

Saturday, August 6, 2011

made jam!!









i couldnt help myself. i made my first jam today. cherries with some blueberries. it came out wonderfully.





the batch made 4 1/2 pint jars, which didnt seem like a lot, but should last me a long time since Matt doesnt really like jam, and josh doesnt either. Not sure about how eliana will like it.


it was quite an undertaking actually, mostly because i had never made jelly (actually i did make a concord grape jelly a few years ago but boiled it too much and it was hard and too rich!), and the first time i ever canned anything.

I have a Ball canning kit and pot but i couldnt actually get the water to boil in the huge pot on my stupid electric stove that kept cycling on and off. eventually i scrapped the canning pot and i just used my regular pot and just put the cans inside, not on any rack or anything, but it still worked like a charm. and the final result is yummy!





Also today, i planted my miniature peach tree, and made a rock border around my two apple trees. Everything in homestead-patriquin is slowly coming together!!


Kids are still recovering from camping trip :) so they just hung out today :)
















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