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Jun. 23, 2008
Strawberry Time!
This morning we went strawberry picking! We pick six baskets full and N. (our oldest son -5 yr) had his basket full first. Good for him!! We had a good time too. Where we were the sun was shinning and it was hot, but we could see that to the north of us, it was starting to rain. We could hear the thunder! By the time we had our baskets filled it was really dark to the north and I was just hoping we would get home in time to take the laundry off the line! On the way home, it started to rain just as we came up to our small village, and by the time we reach home it was pouring. We rushed inside and I then saw that my wonderful husband had taken the laundry off of the line and the girls were happy that he had also thought of Buttercup (our bunny). He was safely in his indoor cage in the garage. The rest of the afternoon was filled with lunch and clean up, hulling three baskets of strawberries for jam and then another one for freezing. The remaining two we left for eating fresh. While doing all that, I also made yogurt and had to tend to diaper changes, and a couple of toddler potty accidents. The children worked really well together, I was surprised and happy about that! Come evening that peacefulness had disappeared, I'm not what happened to change that! Anyway, all is well now and quiet. While we were busy inside about three thunderstorms passed by. I was really thankful we had gone out this morning and not planned to go this afternoon!
Picking berries, all four are here, just count the arms... :)
Yummy berries....
Hulling the berries...
A content baby girl....
Now our toddler had joined in too...
Mashing the berries...
Others also mashing berries...
 Getting the berries ready for the freezer.... He soon tired of the job, mashing berries looked like a whole lot more fun!
Mommy checking up on the work. :)
A picture of me, thanks to my 5 yr. old son :)
Filling the jars...
All done and sealing, this is the first batch of jars, the rest were in the canner.
For my jams I use Pomona's Universal Pectin. It is what my mom uses too. With Pomona's you can use as much or a little honey or sugar and the recipe is so easy to follow. Recipes are included for many jams/jellies with pectin.
So that was our afternoon and hopefully we can have a couple more afternoons like that before the strawberry season is done here. It was a good day! |
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