A Saturday of canning...

We started with not three but five five-gallon buckets of apples, two boxes of pears, a box of grapes, three one-gallon containers of tomatoes, and a crockpot full of pear butter.



This is what the day looked like:


Pear butter after liberal use of the stick blender.



Grapes to be juiced



Steamer and grape juice



It looks like a distillery



But it's just the steamer hard at work

While Marian worked the steamer, I worked on pealing the pears





I took a moment after the juicing was done, the pear butter was canned, and the crockpot cleaned, to slice up the tomatoes and throw them in the crockpot. Missed getting pictures of the crockpot but we made really pretty compost


Karl harvested the grapes at the house and Marian declared, "These shall be raisins"


I started the second box of pears




The pot is full time to can.... we filled it once more before we finished.

Marian started on the apples while I filled jars




We kept the counters busy:


Apples in the crockpot for apple sauce and tomatoes in the large crockpot for tomato sauce.

All our days work:


I'm not wondering why I'm tired tonight.