Adventures in canning...

I love to read other people's blogs.  They can be so inspiring, and work to remind me of my own goals.  You know...to get off the couch, spend more time in the garden, with the chickens, in the kitchen.  To prepare food from scratch and capture the bountiful flavor that comes from the backyard.  In a few months, the garden will be a thing of the past, and all that I will have left will be the remnants that I find in the the freeze and pantry.

I received a gift in the mail last week from a blog acquaintance.  It was a guidebook to preserving, and it has reignited some desires.  I set the goal at the beginning of the summer to learn to can the garden surplus.  And then I delayed....

But no more!  I finally took action this morning.  I went to the local grocery store and got a twelve pack of canning jars. 

And now I am at the ready, with only the decision for where to start to be made....cucumbers?  relish?  wait for apples for sauce?  I just don't know, but it is just the start of the adventure...