Catching up on a couple of things

The first item is canning. Last weekend I went to my favorite farm stand to get some sweet corn for Labor Day. My choice was to get two dozen ears (which is what I went for) or a bag of over five dozen ears and not quite half the price per ear. Guess which I picked.


It was a lot of corn. So everyone are their fill, but we still had quite a bit left over. 


This was not all of it. That evening, my first plan was to find a spot in one of the refrigerators to keep it (it was all blanched) until I could tackle it later in the week. Not surprisingly, it didn't fit in any refrigerator. So I. and I found ourselves cutting corn off the cob on Monday evening. I ended up with 18 cups of really good frozen sweet corn. 

But wait, there's more! Eight cups more to be exact. This I set aside to make corn relish with. This is what I did today because I was worried about it going bad before I could get to it. I'm happy to report that all six pints of corn relish sealed.


Items still on my canning list:
  • Applesauce 
  • Dilly beans
  • Dill pickles
  • Bread and butter pickles 
These are all things we definitely use throughout the year. I'm just not entirely sure when I'm going to get to it all. 

The other catch-up item is how the big horses are doing. Luke is looking more and more comfortable and the other horses are getting more and more used to him being around. Here is how I often see them grazing, which I much better than Major and Emmy on one side of the pasture and Luke on the other. 



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