The canning pots have not taken a break over the past week or so, nor has the pressure canner … I had hoped to start school early (as the girls keep requested to crack open our books – Praise the Lord!) but these tomatoes keep ripening 🙂 and they must not go to waste … […]
“Ma and Laura picked the tomatoes… There were enough ripe tomatoes to make almost a gallon of preserves.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder , The Long Winter I am so grateful – we have an abundance of tomatoes and I do mean an abundance – flowing out of our garden. It is wonderful! […]
For the past week or so, things have been so busy. Coming home from our camping trip at the beginning of the month, it feels like the to-do lists have not stopped. It is all work at home type projects so for that, I am grateful. You will not find me out running about off […]
It’s canning season! What have you canned for your pantry already? There are so many fun recipes out there to try – or time-tested ones passed down from mothers and grandmothers. This year, along with dill pickles, we added bread and butter pickles and a cucumber relish, to our canning to-do list. The girls helped […]
There’s a little cutie pie helping out in the garden. Lazarus {nicknamed “Lazer Lightning Gauthier” by our good friends at summer camp} is now crawling quickly, finding new discoveries in the house and yard and has popped his first tooth. He continues to be the delight of our mostly-all-girl family as we watch him […]
