beautiful addiction

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I’m seriously hooked on this canning thing. I think I found a new hobby. I’m so hooked that we made another 12 jars of pickles tonight (yes…12…putting us at 18 total) and 2 jars of strawberry jam (to test out the recipe). I’m really excited and can’t wait to taste the pickles! I figured it out, and with all the edible supplies for the 18 jars of pickles we made, it comes out to $1.22 per jar. Not bad at all! And I can reuse the jars and stuff, so those costs will be absorbed over the life of the jar! I’m a dork.

I woke up this morning all bright and early to meet up with Will at his place because his family invited me to go blueberry picking with them at a local orchard.  So I got there around 9am, and we were supposed to leave between 9 and 10.  We’re sitting there playing Guitar Hero while waiting to leave and his mom informs us that the berries aren’t ready for picking and won’t be until the end of the month.  Great.  No blueberry picking for us.

Dave and I even went to the store last night and bought the beginning supplies to do some home canning because I wanted to make blueberry jam!  Not that it’s going to go to waste, we will end up going to the orchard when the berries are ready.  Plus, I’m going to try and make some homemade pickles this weekend if I can find cucumbers on sale for cheap.  We LOVE pickles.  And I’m also going to try to whip up a decent batch of strawberry freezer jam.

I’m super excited!