Its canning season....

I am so stinking excited...This is my favorite time of the year.....Fresh fruit season. Yummmmm!

I am in love.....with the raspberries....the peaches....all of the fresh fruit. I love that I live in a area that supports canning so much. I just got 4 flats of Raspberries and I have to admit...this pregnancy has already made me a little (more) crazy. I woke up last night 3 am...because I could smell the raspberries (no.... really I could) and I had to eat some....I fought the feeling for ummmmm.... well..... hours.....like every hour on the hour.....finally I caved....busted out the raspberries at 3am and chowed down and went back to bed...and no I did not brush my teeth (whatever, bite me)

I have always wanted to can....But I have always needed a old person...well, you know what I mean...I have needed a Grandma Esther or an aunt Ellen to help me. But what I have found is that it is really not that hard. And pretty much everyone around here does it. I just look in the ward directory and pick out the first old person...and give them a jingle......I like old people REMEMBER....... AND So really??? why would I call my "cute 25 year old neighbor, that can do it better than me".....Duh....call an old person they need your love and plus..... old people tell you stories...good ones......

Last year I had a friend that canned.........................

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYY FREAKKKKKKK!!!!!
So I was just sitting here and a mouse started to run out of my laundry room.......scared the crap out of me.....Not like the giant grand daddy rats in P- town. But still.... I DO NOT HAVE RODENT'S RUNNING AROUND IN MY HOUSE! NOT COOL!

Any how......I had a friend that canned peaches for her first time.....she was so proud and brought me over 2 jars......So I opened the first jar...and they were so good...... But I noticed something about them...they tasted bubbly.....like they were carbonated.....Yummmm......so the next day I ate the whole other jar...NO JOKE.....the whole huge jar..... all by myself....I actually hid them from my kids......

OK I am a little paranoid and I keep looking over my shoulder.....Scared of a little mouse....NO.....scared that it is going to breed and make tiny little babies in my walls!!! yes!!!!OK back to it......

so.....funny thing.....I went to a canning class and I had heard a question about peaches fermenting and being "bubbly"....... it was my neighbor.....so instead of of sounding stupid in front of the "canning professional"....I went over to my neighbor and asked her what she was talking about...and she said if you let the peaches sit for too long (overnight, I think) that they start to ferment......(really..... look it up..."to make wine")

Sooooo..... I decided this year I am fermenting all of my peaches...because they were good.....and I don't mean good...I mean gooooooooood........like you get all giddy good. I have decided that I can always play the "Anne of green gables" card........

"I didn't know it was current wine- I mean peach wine"

Will you believe me?????? as I am guzzling the "peach-juice!" I think I dreamed about it for weeks after wards...I think I actually asked for more......

Don't call me a Lush.....I may be...it runs in the family so Shut-up!

Anyways, this year I am doing turkey too......My sister Annie did turkey for Christmas...last year? or the year before......must have been the year before. Because I was prego and it made it like through the first 2 weeks and then all 20 jars she gave us were gone. I would just sit down with a fork and eat it out of the jar. With this pregnancy its salad and fresh fruit.....I have been eating salad for breakfast for the last week or so.....and raspberries @ 3am.....whatever.
With Gracie it was Bologna and life cereal.....oh and taco bell mild sauce.....I would pull up to taco bell and say "I want 1 bean burrito and could you give me like 50 mild sauces, please....." and I would suck the sauce right out of the package.

Well I don't know how I got so far off the canning subject......anyhow......if you see a good deal on peaches.....tom-toes......apples or just anything yummy and fruity............ you call me! Like those Utah peaches......I hate hell (Utah) ..... but they do have good peaches, darn that devil ! AND If your nice to me AND I like you ( see, you could be nice to me...and I may not like you....so you must have both credits to apply) I might share some with you......But I am keeping all of the "peach juice" for myself.... you'll have to make your own.......