Peaches!!

On Friday afternoon I got a call from my mom saying that I could go to the Hurricane church orchard and pick peaches, for FREE. Well you can't beat that deal, so we waited for her and my dad to drive down and we went to get some. I can't really say the kids had a blast picking them but they were good helpers. We stayed until it was to dark to see and this is what we left with....

That's alot of peaches. I decided that even though I had no idea what I was doing I'd try bottling them. Well I had a ton of peaches, a few bottles, no lids, no canning pot, no bottle lifter, basically I had the peaches and that was it. On Saturday morning I started looking for everything I'd need, I found nothing none of the stores I went to had anything I needed. Jared decided he'd call his buddies mom and luckily she had a canner, my aunt let us know big lots had bottles, and the walmart across town had lids. So after almost 2 days of searching we had everything we needed to get started. I finally finished the last batch @ 11:00 Sunday night. Even after all the trouble that it was gathering everything, and the weekend long headache I had, getting it all done it was well worth it. We got a total of 59 bottles and quite a few batches of fruit leather.