My new hobby

We have a fantastic garden this year and last year my Mom taught me how to can tomatoes. So I felt confident that I could can other things after her lesson. Yesterday I researched a little and figured out how to can PICKLES! I love pickles and I really love homemade pickles, so this was very exciting for me. The hardest part was finding the dill at the grocery store. :) For some reason it was by the torillas instead of in with the herbs.

Lilly really enjoyed helping stuff the jars with all of the ingedients. She called the dill "sticks" and was very good at helping me.
Here is the end result, aren't they pretty pickles! I loved the poping noises after they had been processed as the jars were cooling. Canning is such a fullfilling thing, you end up with great food that will last a few years. I just love how food looks in jars too, I think it's so neat to know that I made those.

Here's the next project, JAM! My sister Angie and I picked all of these apricots yesterday too. Today we are going to can jam and maybe even apricot syrup, yummy. When my tomatoes turn red I am going to can salsa too, I think that I have discovered a hobby that I like. I love that I get to wear my cute apron while canning and I also love that I am making something that can be useful. I guess it brings the practical woman out in me.