Canning Cherries - yay they finally came on and with a bang! We did 18lbs on Sunday when we got home from church (hunny washed and pulled stems while I did the rest) all in pints! Since it is one of his favorite canned fruits I thought it would be best to can them in pints as a "single-serve" jar rather than him turning a QUART into the single-serve jar I know he can do. We can all our fruit in just water - no sugar no added juice - I have been known even to forget the vit-c or fruit fresh since we try to do it natural, but boy do those peaches look nasty w/o that fruit fresh!
Today we ran down to Wal-Mart and got another 36 lbs of cherries, personally I thought these were better than the ones we got on Saturday, but Gary said he thought the other ones were better. Anyway, at 98cents a pound we just couldn't pass up the chance to do up some more! When we ran out of pints I began using quarts and I tell you that man's eyes lit up like a Christmas tree in Times Square! It was so cute when hunny counted all the jars of cherries in the pantry from Sunday and what we did today plus the case and some left over from last year he says "we can have a jar a day and not run out for almost 5 months!" dream on!
I was even multi-tasking today and making bread while the last 3 batches of cherries were on. I got a new mixer in June and I have not liked it at all. It has 12 speeds it says, and you would think that with that many speeds it would be enough to whip oil into mayo - but no, and I even bought a stand mixer so I could free up my hands to make the mayo! Alas, hunny says I get what I pay for, and I guess I did . . . with the dough hooks though it makes FABULOUS gluten free, casien free, soy free bread!!! So now our local natural store is ordering in Soy-Free Vegannaise for me :)
Saturday before the produce came in we went to the Farmers Market over in Twin Falls and got some fabulous goat cheese from Sweetwater Farms. They are a local farm in the Magic Valley and just the cutest couple, very young, with a itty bitty baby and lots of goats. This cheese was so wonderful we had to have some - in Huckleberry! OH MY GOSH spread on warm, fresh from the oven bread, it was like we had died and gone to heaven!!!
Course I would be remiss if I didn't talk about all the Digital Diva things I have been doing for the next round of UStamp to start this Friday (12th). Although I am sworn to secrecy, of all the INCREDIBLE projects I am seeing, I can tell you that it would be a SHAME to miss even a single day of them . . .
PLUS I have already gotten a head start on my swaps for this UStamp round - have you? I have learned a few lessons from some incredible stampers (Crafty Helen are you reading this?) on how to "finish the story" and so my cards are now complete! Hunny says I have finally succeeded to stamp with the Big Girls - woo hoo!!! My goal is to enter each swap group, I think I will not do a one to one swap this round if at all I can wiggle out, that way I can focus on enough of the same cards for everyone to have one!!! Sorry these pix are blurry - I was trying to get shots of the details - glitter and embossing and really didn't do these cards justice with these pix!
Last weekend my son sent me a bunch of pix he took of the girls with his new droid (maybe android?) phone and WOW is the clarity incredible!!! Stampin UP! is having a new contest for the MDS and so I am thinking of working with the photos to create a project with MDS and enter it in . . . $400 in free downloads is being given away in prizes!!! check out the website mydigitalstudio.net for details on September 1st!
Aren't they just beautiful granddaughters??? Well that covers most of my time - in a nut-shell! Until next time - get your fingers inky and Happy Stamping!
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