Canning...the after midnight round up

Canning took a while but I made the tactical error of stopping to drop off the pickers tax at Mom and Dad's and I never get out of there quickly. So this is coming to you after midnight while I wind my body down for sleep. 5:30 is going to come way too early.

I took the direct route to Marian's today and had the pickles on the stove by 7:00. The relish now looks like this:



And this:



I actually did this, start to finish on my own. That's a first! Obviously I had moral support but I did my own work! While I worked on the relish, Marian and Trudi started peeling and coring the mountain of pears. We got about two boxes done but still have a little more than two more to go. I have a crockpot full of pears simmering to make pear butter:



I also have about a dozen pints of spiced pears:



We ran out of syrup with just three jars to go so we heated up the left over spiced rum syrup and used it instead:



Marian and I will have to get together on Saturday because there are still pears, plums, and a whole lot of apples to process.

I'm not complaining but my pantry is getting kind of full:



We still have all the fruit to do yet and I want to make tomato sauce. Hmm...it could get a bit crowded here.

Oops, I hit my limit...

Apparently, after five years, I have hit my storage space limit on LiveJournal. 1 GB. To increase my space to 10GB I have to have a paid account $19.99 plus a storage fee of $24. I can't really afford that. So I've deleted all pictures prior to 2009, which really only takes me down a few MB. A temporary solution at best. I'm not sure what the permanent solution is.