Canning Season

So, canning season is almost over. Yay!!!! This year Mike and I had an absolutely beautiful garden. I can't stand to see anything go to waste and of course with the falling economy I'm even more worried. So, I have been going like crazy to preserve all of our summer efforts. Our friend owns a corn field so I have had two loads of corn equaling about 800 ears of corn. OH MY GOSH!!! That is sooooo much corn. But my freezer is now overloaded with wonderful frozen corn and I also bottled about 3 dozen pints of corn (in case the power goes out and all my work of frozen corn is lost :-( ) These are all things that I worry about. Stupid, huh? Then I made 5 batches of salsa and I have tomatoes, onion, peppers, and jalapenos still growing in the garden for more. My mom actually came over on Tuesday and helped me cut up all my salsa. It was a great day. I have used my dill and cucumbers to make bottled dill pickles. They look so dang yummy, but I know I need to let them set for awhile so they take on the taste of the dill. It's killing me! Oh and I've bottled and froze green beans... And picked and juiced choke cherries for syrup and jelly... Needless to say I've been kinda busy.Mike has been so good to help. Last night we were in at the daycare until midnight 'doing corn'. I still have about 100 ears to go but the pile is quickly diminishing. I ran out of sugar or I would have kept going last night. I have not even started bottling potatoes. They'll take forever too. But they'll be yummy. So, this is my excuse for not blogging for awhile. I've been BUSY! :-)