I Thought Retirement Meant You Got to Stop Working!

[Ysarex]

It's started. Harvest time from now till Fall. Yesterday was first pressure canning day. Earlier in the week I did a batch of water-bath pickles but yesterday I got out the big guns.

One peach tree was ready and we had already picked plums. Made the plum sauce the day before and canned it yesterday (10 1/2 pints); then processed the peaches and more plums and canned 15 pints.

Today it's back to pickles.

I'm already tired.

Joe

 

[vintagesnaps]

Mmm, it'll be worth it.

 

[Gary A.]

Man that looks great!

 

[Jeff15]

The trouble with retirement is we never get a day off....

 

[smoke665]

Mmmm that looks good!!! Like Jeff mentioned above the worst thing about retirement is weekends are just another day. LOL

 

[Ysarex]

Man that looks great!

Mmm, it'll be worth it.

Most of it get's given away (family), but we do keep some to ourselves. I got a little sad yesterday listening to my wife run down the list of everyone getting a jar of that plum sauce and realizing that left me with two jars and I know she's going to think of someone else that gets one. We held back a jar of the plums from the group yesterday and just finished dessert of pound cake with butter and cooked plums -- exquisite.

Joe