Yesterday I picked green beans again and got quite a nice batch. We canned 4 quarts and save out some for dinners the next couple of days. Our canner holds 7 quarts so we scraped the last of the small potatoes and canned 4 more quarts of those. There were quite a few more than we had room for in the canner and have put those into the refrigerator to have for dinners for the next week. To can potatoes you have to scrape them and blanch them by boiling them for ten minutes before putting them into the jars so that means the potatoes I save out are half cooked which gives me a leg up on dinners next week. Then in the afternoon I canned four quarts of bread and butter pickles so it turned out to be a busy day which was fine because I knew today was Sunday and we agreed to take it easy today. Well I found I really need to pick the blueberries. It took a lot longer than I thought, I got 6 quarts and then it was time for breakfast. After breakfast I picked the raspberries and got a pint. Then I wrote my letters and got dinner. After dinner I juiced the raspberries and now have a quart of juice and then I cleaned and froze the blueberries. I have a one gallon bag full and another half full and the berries are just starting to get ripe so I will get a lot more. I will be lucky to get another cup of raspberries and then I will make jelly from all the juice. I then stole a few minutes to get a little stitching in and finally decided to rest about 3:30. Joe called and we had a nice visit and the day was done. I did call Hawhes in Dunlap and they said they should have canning tomatoes by tomorrow so if they do we will go down and get four boxes ( 100 pounds) and get the first batch of spaghetti sauce canned. We usually can about 125 quarts and would like to do the same this year so want t get as early a start as we can. Have a great day.
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