Photos

Jess in the raspberry patch.

Kevin and Jess also picked Raspberries, Yum Yum.

Some apples on a tree at Bowman Orchards.

Kevin and Jess picked apples at Bowman Orchards.

Canned stewed tomatoes. Ready for eating or basement dwelling until a later date. Our first canning experience was a success- they all sealed!

Kevin’s comfort food was Hot Cocoa made on the stove. Nice Right? Well we might not have unpacked mugs yet so… Pyrex mug it was! “It has a handle, it’ll be fine.” ~ Kelsey

Presenting to you canned stewed tomatoes. (This photo is so bright you’d never know it was 10:00pm!)

Kevin was so fascinated with the steam coming off the Pressure Canner that Kelsey graciously held up a black blanket to get a better picture. It was a lot of steam!

Filling jars with stewed tomatoes. The arm is blurry but you can see the ring tattoo on the finger!

2nd layer of jars in the Pressure Canner!

Twist and turn. Putting the lids on before they go in the canner!

Sealing the lids onto the full jars.

Using our big pot again- to cook stewed tomatoes! (Thanks Kevin, Julie and boys!)

Lots of Peppers and Onions. I finally found a use for Kevin’s “bite-size” portions.

Look at all those pots in the background! Kevin’s getting ready for his first canning experience.

Clean jars filled with hot water ready for canning.

We barely made all of the corn fit in the freezer. If Jess would have taken one less container, it wouldn’t have all fit!

We had so much corn. Jess took home nine of the small containers, but we still had a ton left.

Kelsey stripping the corn. You can see the massive pile of containers we have amassed to this point.

Kevin mashing the corn to break up the large chunks.

Kevin couldn’t have fit more corn on this tray if he tried.

We had a few ‘special’ ears. We cooked them and stripped them anyway.

A bunch of corn containers being filled up.

The corn was extra juicy – you can see the juice going about 2/3 of the way up the container.