Cherry Conclusion

What does 30 lbs of beautiful Bing cherries get you?  Besides oddly stained hands of course?

• 29 pints of canned cherries (plus the 1 that broke)
• 10 quarter pints of quartered canned cherries that are the home made version of the fruit cups you get in the store
• 1 batch of cherry jam that yielded 4 and a half pints
• 2 pies worth of cherries frozen
• happy snackers - we ate to our hearts content

I learned that my daughters are more than capable of stemming cherries and not eating each one they stem, that Miss Pear can pit them with the pitter, and that next year I need a second pitter...and probably twice as many cherries!  We had a lot of fun, and are enjoying the results very much.

It makes me very happy to see the pantry filling up again with delicious treats, healthier too as we use a very light syrup.

And we pick up 10 lbs of Rainier cherries Thursday night.....

Pumpkin Patch

We are beginning to explore more of our new surroundings and are having a great deal of fun doing it. On Saturday we visited a nearby pumpkin far to select the one that would become our jack-o-lantern. We had a lot of fun, and the girls enjoyed looking at everything and exploring.

They were fascinated by how pumpkins grew.

Here is a close up of the actual field:

And another one....

We turned into absolute tourists with our camera because everything was so beautiful! So because I so rarely post pictures here, I am including a few more!

One thing we have loved about our new home is all the farms so close! It is fun to be so close to where your food comes from!