Carlyn

i made blueberry jelly from some of the fresh blueberries we picked at meemaw's house pearl eating figs!! luther enjoying a homemade fruit roll up ( fruit leather) that i made in the food dehydrator with pureed blueberries and apple sauce so we planted a huge garden this year and it has been keeping me busy along with our fig tree and blueberries from my meemaw's house. i also have been on a huge sewing kick. so the next few posts are to show everyone some of what has been going on at our house over the last 2 weeks. i didn't have any pictures of all of the squash preservation.

spaghetti sauce!! gotta use some of those fresh tomatoes to make a tomato pie!! diced tomatoes to be frozen.. these will be perfect for soups and stews in the winter!! and i had to try our the dehydrator on the tomatoes!! sundried tomatoes are packed with flavor.

peeled seeded(i keep the tomato juice to freeze) cut in half at this point then i have lots of options. so far i have used my tomatoes to can salsa and spaghetti sauce and to freeze diced tomatoes.

fresh picked tomatoes from our garden cored blanched ice bath

so last year at this time we had just moved into our house, i was over 9 months pregnant and all of the sudden we had a fig tree with massive amounts of ripe figs. we really didn't know what to do with them. i had several failed cooking experiments. mom came and made a batch of fig jam and fig preserves. we ate as many at we coud. james made some homemade fig ice cream that was pretty good. but we had lots go to waste. so this year i was prepared!! i borrowed my meemaw's food dehydrator!! now i can turn 3 huge bowls full of figs into one bag of dried figs!! there are so may recipes out there for dried figs and they are just good eats!! i am also freezing some fresh for use in smoothies and i will be canning some this week. and of course we are eating plenty!! pearl alone has been eating about 30 or more a day. she is a lover of figs!! she get so excited when she sees them. she likes to eat them with breakfast, lunch and dinner. an she likes to snack on some...

this one was made from an old towel i found at the cabin. it was so old and soft i knew it would me a great diaper it is a pocket diaper, so i made some soaker pads to match that go inside of it here are 6 different ones that were not in the wash at he moment. all 3 on top are from the old towels and the 3 on the bottom are flannel. the first flannel is an old receiving blanket. the other two i got the flannel off clearance at walmart. the flannel ones have an extra inner layer. those layers are made from an old jersey sheet. all 10 diapers i have made so far cost less than $10 total and that includes the thread, elastic and all fabric and i have plenty of stuff to do more!!

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