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Jul. 25, 2007~ It's rasberry time ~
I was writing my Reflection Blogger Award post and lost it.( it was my mistake ) So I will try to rewrite that later. But instead I will share what I am doing the last couple days.
My family and I are picking our rasberries. I don't like to get to hot so I freeze my jamming fruit as we pick it and then in late September we start making jam when it cools down. I freeze it on cookie trays and then bag it in freezer bags. It makes it easy for only measuring what I want at any given time. You can then also use the frozen fruit for other things like milk shakes or something. If you have the freezer room this is a great tip. So when you WANT to warm up your house when it is cool ...jam making is a great way to warm up the house. We like to put off making fires in the wood stove and this is a good way.
"If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!
If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in
a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents.
The mother would then be able to hold herself in "wise passiveness’ and would not fret her children by continual interference even of hand or eye - she would let them
be." ...Charlotte Mason
Hee, hee. We all have done that, Mary. I remember good old Jane reminding me it was not Fun Friday yet one time! I have never made jam, but I think I need to learn how. My kids love what a good blogging friend gave us. (Thanks *K*)
Blessings,
Jenn
That's exactly what I do, too! However, I go one step further. I wash and blend the berries up, measure, and freeze the liquid in the amount needed for one batch of jam. In the cold days of winter, I make the jam.
Note: Our raspberries don't ripen until the middle or end of August--and into September! We have the "hack 'em off at the roots" variety, so we don't have to distinguish old and new canes.
And I like the idea of SOMETHING ripening at a different time from everything else.
Rats! I should have posted my humongous bowl of blueberries, but they're all in the freezer!
It's hard finding time to blog when everything's getting ripe at the same time this week.
I got your message but was putting down boys then working with hubby! I posted my post last night at about midnight and forgot to add your pic , I have yet to download it to photobucket. I am going to add it tonight or this evening for sure!!! Thank you again for donating it!! hope your having a wonderful , joy filled day!!!
How fun sounding. I have made jam once, and I really like it. No easy way to get berries out here, plus I don't know how to make jam by myself. :)
JoAnn
Yummy! Raspberries are my all-time favorite food! Good idea about keeping it until later. Our Autumn Bliss (golden) raspberries didn't do as well this year with the drought & us eatting them as quick as they ripened. I will have to go to a U-Pick farm - next week maybe. We had berry smoothies for breakfast (frozen berries though).
Lucky you. We get our berries from my FIL. I do like to pick them, but usually he has them already bagged for us. Yes, I do this with all of my fruit. I also buy apples when they are on sale in the fall and save them for the dead of winter to make my apple butter and sauce.
Blessings on your day!
I am salivating just looking at the pictures of your berries. YUMMY!
What? Cools down in September????
Maybe i should move up there with you until this baby is born. I know i'm still gonna be sweating in October down here.
but don't get too many. We have some bushes but between children and birds there aren't many left to freeze. But we are home again and when we arrived my children found about a quart of black raspberries on our hill and picked them for me. They are in the freezer waiting for winter smoothies.
First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 19 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 17, 15, 11, and 9. I grew up in the states but married my Canadian sweetheart and moved up north.
We live in the southern part of British Columbia , Canada on our homestead. We have homeschooled our four boys from birth and plan to go the distance till all four graduate from our homeschool. I teach with a Charlotte Mason style. I love to craft! I am a beader, knitter, x-stitcher, quilter. We have been on a journey of being apart of building "The House that God Built". I have been recording our journey on my blog. Go to my links on The House That God Built and you will find it. I know God has a lot more instore for us and we just need to follow where our Lord takes us.
This blog is the home of Show and Tell Friday's and Tightwad Tuesdays. I hope you decide to join in on the fun !
Blessings and ((HUGS))
In Him<><
-Mary
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) So I will try to rewrite that later. But instead I will share what I am doing the last couple days. 
We like to put off making fires in the wood stove and this is a good way. 
First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 19 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 17, 15, 11, and 9. I grew up in the states but married my Canadian sweetheart and moved up north.
We live in the southern part of British Columbia , Canada on our homestead. We have homeschooled our four boys from birth and plan to go the distance till all four graduate from our homeschool. I teach with a Charlotte Mason style. I love to craft! I am a beader, knitter, x-stitcher, quilter. We have been on a journey of being apart of building "The House that God Built". I have been recording our journey on my blog. Go to my links on The House That God Built and you will find it. I know God has a lot more instore for us and we just need to follow where our Lord takes us.
This blog is the home of Show and Tell Friday's and Tightwad Tuesdays. I hope you decide to join in on the fun !
Blessings and ((HUGS))
In Him<><
-Mary
