In anticipation of Irene's arrival JoAnne and I spent the day yesterday getting the house and yard storm ready. We broke down, packed up and moved most of our "stuff" indoors. The end result is that we're ready for what Mother Nature has to offer but it's also opened our eye's to the fact that we have a lot, actually too much, "stuff"!!
We also hit the gardens and picked what we could - dozens of cucumbers, a half dozen ears of delicious Silver Queen corn and ~280 red, ripe tomatoes! The chickens enjoyed gorging on the over ripe and rotted ones. Of course, this bounty lead to the first canning of the 2011 season.
JoAnne worked her butt off and at the end of the day we had a total of 30 jars canned; 12 quarts and 18 pints, yummy!
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