This is why people butcher in the late fall.  Here I am trying to preserve for a family of nine and now I am making sausage too.  We really needed the meat, but I wanted to make my own summer sausage so I know what's in it.  Sausage making takes hours - which I know - and there are other things I would rather be doing especially in 105 degree weather.  We are about 1/2 done.

We are hibernating in the canning kitchen in the basement, but it is still warm in here.  We canned a batch of green beans and froze some broccoli.  Summer squash is in the dehydrator.  I bought some peaches and am planning on making jelly and peach salsa.  The guy I got the peaches from said he'll have plenty for canning at a decent price of $1.10.  That's good news.

My oldest and I are planning on going to bed shortly and then working in the middle of the night.  We have to cook the apples for applesauce and can't do it in the heat.  We'll get up later and start cooking and cutting and peeling for apple pie filling.

I'm tire just thinking of it all.

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Posted by stitchnchick

It will be SO worth it when winter winds blow! I tell myself this same thing when I am exhausted and sore from all of the work. I do enjoy it though and I'm sure you do, too. There is so much satisfaction in putting up your own food. :-)

Amy

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Posted by gabbie427

We have a friend who was getting ready to butcher some hogs, and we were able to buy a whole hog. We are so blessed with the pork and sausage, and believe it or not, I had never had homegrown bacon like this. YUMMY!!!

I only wish we had a larger property so we could have a garden. I mentioned container gardening to hubby this year and he chuckled at me and said no. LOL I will bring it up again next year. I love growing my own produce and being able to put it up.

Ahhh the taste of fresh apple butter in the winter, or corn and green beans!!! Tomatoes and salsa!!!! YUMMY!

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo

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Posted by a1health

Oh my! What a good homekeeper you are preparing for the winter for your family! Blessings for your work!
~Farrah

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