The Final Tally is In!!!

Janet and I canned our last batch today. If I had blogged about every time we canned something, that would have been the sole topic since August, so I have skipped a lot of the details. Today, after I pulled our last bottle of applesauce from the water bath, I took a moment to calculate the totals (drum roll, please):

369

That's right. 369 jars of peaches, tomatoes, applesauce, apple pie filling, pears, pear sauce, and 1 experimental batch of chili (final verdict on the chili? NOT WORTH THE WORK.). I feel quite satisfied with our labors. Just the other day Janet and I talked about how rewarding it was to look at a processed jar of applesauce in the afternoon, and know that it was an apple hanging on a tree just hours before.

In these crazy economic times, it is nice to know that my family has a whole year's worth of fruit and I spent less than $50 to do it.