Donnie, Katherine, and Jims first try at canning.

Donnie, Katherine, and Jims first try at canning.

Donnie decided we needed to try canning.


So the first thing we need to do is to get some jars to do there canning. So Donnie went on the Internet and found a garage sale listing canning jars so we decided to go over and check it out. Guess what they had canning jars so we got six dozen for five bucks. And these were the wide mouth ones. A lot easier to work with. So we got out our raspberries and started making raspberry jam. This is something we’ve never done before ( canned as a kid but that was a couple of years ago. but it isn’t that hard in the good thing was that we had talked to Colleen and she told us how to do it. So we got home we had everything we needed and went to work. While mostly Donnie and Katherine I did help though. We made about 11 jars of raspberry jam. And then we had some apples that we turned into applesauce. And thought why not. Let’s can them. So then we canned six quarts of applesauce. Not bad for a Saturday night. We needed to stick around the house because we still having some flooding in the basement. The pump seems to work just fine but I seem to have to juggle it a little to get us started. So we check on it every once in a while anyway here’s some pictures of a scanning with a good time had by all November seven 2009.