There was plenty of picking going on.
My husband, daughter, and I went to my parent's place to pick fruit.
My sister showed up to help too.
Dad has a apple tree with a bumper crop.
A couple pear trees and a couple peach trees too.
The peach are the small white Iowa peaches.
Here is some of what we brought home.
The fruit crisper drawer is full of apples and there is a cooler full in the garage.
I have a cooler full of pears that isn't in this pictures.
There is also a huge box of peaches sitting in the back of the truck.
Too full for us to want to move until some of the peaches are gone.
Mom and Dad also have tons at home.
I did make butterscotch peach jam yesterday.
Today I am planning on making applesauce.
I may freeze some apples today too.
Later this week, I will be doing apple butter.
The pears aren't ripe yet.
They don't ripen til picked off the tree.
I am still doing tomatoes too.
One day I need to find time to cook my neck pumpkin.
This I got from a friend.
I'm going to be busy.
But, a good kind of busy.
Only two of us so I wouldn't bother, but with a family, what largesse.
ReplyDeleteJo, that is why I got so much. It's just my parents at home now and they sell what they can and Mom puts up the rest. But, she said it just sits there so I bring a lot home. Some will be given away and I will make stuff to give away for the holidays. They usually give us a lot, but usually not quite this much.
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