MMMMMMMMMMM CHERRIES

Can you tell what time of year we are hitting? Yep, time to get our canning on! And yesterdays task

CHERRIES!!!!

We got all these Cherries for FREE! A man in our ward has a cherry orchard and they had already sold all the cherries they could, so before the trees were stripped, he let any ward members come over and pick the cherries. The trees were still LOADED, but if a cherry has a blemish, a split or is not the right size, it can't be picked to be sold. So we picked an apple box FULL of cherries. I did 16 quarts of cherries, 6 batches of various cherry freezer jams and froze a bunch as well. Our fingernails are still stained a lovely bing cherry color, but we are done. And the blessing? Spending the day canning with my daughter. Even though it was hard work and tiring, we accomplished something fantastic.