I had the wonderful opportunity to pilfer someones garden. Well pilfer might not be the correct term since she graciously offered. But if she hadn't I would have totally pilfered it! Well, I guess I wouldn't have because I didn't know her or where she lived. Ugh! I guess what I am saying is my Mom's friend offered to let us both come and get stuff from her garden. Geez louise!
So we did and it was awesome!
My kiddo's had lots of fun picking:
Zucchini
Green Beans
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Green Bell Peppers
and Red Potatoes
I had fun, washing, chopping, shredding, dicing, boiling, and freezing the fruits of our labor.
It made me feel all domestic and stuff.
It was a good feeling.
We were able to can 19 quarts of beautiful tomatoes. They will be delicious in my world famous spaghetti sauce.
(Well not world famous but home famous...I guess)
We brought home one large zucchini and 1 medium sized zucchini.
Out of those I have 5 bags full of shredded zucchini rationed out in heavy 1 cup portions .
I chopped up enough green bell peppers for one large baggy full.
These were the most work, but look how beautiful! I have three 2 cup portions, and two 4 cup portions of short cut green beans;
and 3 bags with longer skinny green beans.
Look at this happy guy. I cut off this top and this was staring back on me!
It was hard to chop him up...but chop him I did.
I think Heavenly Father has a sense of humor-in a good way.
Not a Depeche Mode kind of way.
Oh and here is the picture of Ro on his bike that I was struggling with from the previous post. I didn't want him to feel left out....not that he reads my blog. Just in case though.
***Insert evil laugh***
I am a bad mom.
Sorry Jack but when you say:
"Don't put it on the blog!"
It just makes me want to do it more.
Can you see her sad, dejected little self?
I am sure one day blogs will deemed as child abuse.
But for now I will keep on abusin'!
"Don't put it on the blog!"
It just makes me want to do it more.
Can you see her sad, dejected little self?
I am sure one day blogs will deemed as child abuse.
But for now I will keep on abusin'!
4 comments:
I am so impressed on the canning stuff ! Way to go, you are getting so domestic! Really they all look great. It is so fun to be productive. I always like to leave it sitting on the counter for a few days making sure EVERYONE sees what I have done. Too bad no one is here to see it anymore! It's funny how many times you can look at it all yourself and just feel so proud.
I love canning, even though I couldn't do much of it this year. So much work, but don't you feel so accomplished? It's almost as if you can say, 'My house is trashed, but we can eat yummy green beans in the midddle of winter.' The sad picture of Jackie is great.
Great job on the canning, I'm a little jealous. Love the smiley peppper. You should of sold it on ebay. LOL!
Ok, the pepper with the smiley face, AMAZING!! I love peppers, oh so much. Anyway, good for you livin off the land and stuff. I wouldn't know the first thing about bottling or canning, so I'm all impressed with your domesticity there! Cute pics of the kids and your picnic, bummer about the wet pants.
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