8 hours

of canning, freezing, washing (laundry and dishes) and baking today. Today canned 6 pints of pear jam, 1 pint of pickled summer squash, 5 pints of sliced spiced pickles, froze 10 cups of peppers, froze 10 cups of tomatoes, and baked 20 loaves of pear bread. We also have the pears cut up for the wine, but I need to purchase a mesh bag to hang the pulp in while it is fermenting. In addition to this we have 3 crispers full of fresh peaches, plums and pears, and we are expecting to pick up the 1/2 beef this week. actually feel like we have a ton of food...like where are we going to store it all yet, especially since we still need to harvest the carrots, 3 types of pumpkins, butternut and spaghetti (volunteer plant that was quite prolific) squash, sunflowers and the egg gourds (not edible).....our cup runs over with yummy food. Our potatoes were killed off by the monster pumpkins and our cabbage may not fully mature by freezing since they were delayed from the rabbits and out tomatoes harvest has been low and late his year so I may purchase a bushel from our local farmers market so we can freeze more for chili over the winter.