Sunday, August 2, 2020

Getting Pickled, Blueberries, and More


It's all about preserving the harvest these days.  I've pickled, frozen, and made jam.  I have yet to dehydrate, but it's coming!

My favorite pickles are bread and butter pickles.  Not too sweet and not too tart.  




There's a nearby U-pick blueberry patch nearby and I was able to pick six and a half pounds of blueberries in no time.  The bushes were bending over because they were so loaded with ripe berries!




I froze a bunch in vacuum packing and made a few jars of yummy blueberry jam with the rest.  




On the drive out to the blueberry patch I saw this little cutie by the road...





We were burning some brush and apparently one of our cats, Thug (so named because he used to be quite the bully), decided to get a little too close to the fire!




Silly cat!











2 comments:

  1. Poor kitty! Lucky Thug got out with just burned whiskers :) Bread & Butter pickles are my favorite. We haven't had hardly any cucumbers so I've been making B & B watermelon rinds, and they are good! Never would have imagined it!

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    1. That sounds good! I think I'm going to try B&B zucchini.

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