The little ones helped.
The big ones helped (my sweet hubby picked LOTS)
And all the ones in between helped
We ended up with several boxes of these:
Which soon ended up looking like this:
That was cooked down (MMM smells good):
And ladled into jars:
Oops, shoulda worn an apron!!
And the final product - 45 pints of yummy jam. 
Saturday was a busy day but it feels so good to know that those jars are waiting to be opened this winter - ready to spread summer berries on warm biscuits and scones.
6 comments:
oh my goodness...your belly...soooo cute :o)
looks like you all had a great time...and oh the jam must be so yummy....maybe we'll see it at the home school center :o)
what a blessing berries are...yummy yummy yummy!
~simply~
I don't know about cute - but definitely BIG :0)!!! No stretch marks, yahoo!!! Yup berries are a blessing - God was good to us when He created them!!
No stretch marks??? not fair...God has been good to you :o)
~simply~
This looks so good! I love getting my jelly and jam ready for the year ahead. I had a not so great jelly making time tonight. I was experimenting on making Oregon grape jelly, We picked washed cleaned and prepared our juice. Then I added my sugar and pectin and started to cook away. I could see little lines in it and upon a closer look I had maggets in my jelly. I checked my pectin box and it had expired in 2004. I am thinking that this may be what the problem was? I hated the waste of all the sugar! I have never had this happen before but will take note to check on all these things the next time around!
Back to needing to get some other berries! I am glad I noticed this! I hope you bring some jelly and biscuits to school this year to share...no pressure though! Maybe you bring the jelly and I will bake the biscuits...that sounds more fair!
PS. You are looking the part these days of an expectant mom..you are getting closer!
Oh Ross,
What a huge disappointment with your jelly. I think that would make me cry!! (Although, that is easy for me to do lately - for some reason :0)) Did you pick raspberries at your brothers yet? I hope you get lots to make up for this loss!! I for sure will bring jelly and biscuits to school!!!
Blessings,
Mom of lots
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