Yes, it is that time of year again.  It’s the time when all your food storage shelves are full of empty jars and the storage room is covered in boxes of fruit and veggies.  So you start to clean and sterilize, peal and chop, blanch and boil, and stuff and seal.  It’s a lot of hard work but well worth it when you see your shelves full again not with empty jars this time but full.  The last few weeks Corey and I have been busy canning peaches, tomatoes, and pears.  We have also froze corn and jam.  In a few weeks we will probably have potatoes and apples.

We really lucked out this year on corn.  A friend of ours told us about a stake that had a corn field that needed to be picked or it would all go to waste.  So anyone who wanted some corn could go and pick.  She gave us directions and we put Levi down for a nap and got a sitter for him and took Preston and Sophia with us to the field.  For the next half hour we would enter what felt like a jungle and pick ear after ear.  Soon we had a garbage bag full and a couple of boxes too.  We gave 3 dozen ears to our friend who told us of the place and then started counting the rest.  It ended up that we picked 11 dozen ears of corn (including the 3 we gave away).  So we shucked and boiled and cut off the cob and froze 6 dozen.  Then we gave away another 1 1/2 dozen (we kept some for Sunday dinner).  Now our freezer is full of corn.  I wish we had taken some pictures but we need to get in the habit of bringing the camera with us.