Jumping Puddles Jen: From tree to table!

Sunday, September 14, 2008

From tree to table!

Today I canned my first dozen quarts of pears. Our tree is bursting with ripe fruit that tastes wonderful! Next week we are going to make some pear jam and pear pie! Yum-O!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: THOSE PEARS LOOK AMAZING!!!!
-Rhonda; September 15, 2008 at 9:46 AM

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