Can you guess what we're up to over here?

You guessed it! Time for peaches.

That's not all we've been doing though.

Blackberries (though these may have actually

been Dewberries-not much difference to speak of).

And blueberries.

These were the big ones I used for jam.

These were smaller and we froze them for

 use later in muffins, or to mix with applesauce.

They were very sweet so 1 box disappeared immediately.

I'm not even sure they were washed.  Sometimes you

just have to pray for their health.

We ended up with a gallon each of the blackberries and the large blueberries and 1 & 1/2 gallons of the small blueberries.

I made a mixed berry jam using the strawberries we had picked and frozen in the spring along with the blueberries and the blackberries.  I don't really care for raspberries so I like this particular combination much better for mixed berry jam.  I let Grandma taste the sample batch I made and she declared it was the best she had ever tasted; even surpassing her favorite jelly which her Grandmother used to make.  A statement like that sure does make you feel good.

I've got to get some more peaches - we've only done 1 & 1/2 bushels so far (welllll, we bought 1&1/2 bushels, nowhere near that many made it all the way to the canner), and I have some nectarines waiting to be turned into Salvation Jam, which is a combination of nectarine, pineapple juice, and pineapple sage.  I can't wait to try it.

Right now I've got a whole buch of basil drying out.  It smells sooooo good.

Becky