Preserving: pickles, tomato saucing, and peaches, green beans, and goats

I'm back with a lot to say, so let's get started! First, my grandma got me a camera, and all my pictures from now on are from that.  Thanks, Grandma Tam! the camera is wonderful! 📷😊

About a month ago, Dad and I made pickles!!

We picked them from the garden, scrubbed them, Stuck them in a crock(with seasonings), and for four weeks fermented them.  We should be taking them out soon!

Also, we went to Maryhill and picked up a couple boxes of Blazing star peaches(free-stone peaches) so we could can them.

  Mom would wrench them open, pop the pit out, and stick them in a foldable chef basket(collapsable basket with handles) and a wire strainer with a handle on it.

I would blanch them in boiling water for 30 seconds and then we would pop them in a bowl with ice water, peel the skins off, put them in a pot with fruit fresh, and then Mom would make her syrup, boil her jars, stick the peach halves in the jar, while pouring in the syrup.  Then she would can them in the water bath canner.

We would put the peach skins in a watermelon rind for the chickens.  They had a picnic!

The completed peaches

They are so pretty! After that, we did the same process, but instead of canned peaches Dad wanted spiced peaches(also called pickled peaches).  So we bought more peaches.  These peaches were called Lady something, and even though we blanched them for about 35-40 seconds, The skins just wouldn't peel off! Mom had to slice most of them.  Then, we bought more peaches, called Happy Valley peaches, and they were even worse then the Lady(I think they were called Lady Marion or something like that) peaches!

Then, we blanched green beans from the garden and froze them.  After that, we sauced tomatoes.

We washed them, choped them into chunks, and sauced them with our Master Sauce saucer

Also about a month ago, Daisy came down with a weird lump underneath her jowl where her jowl and neck connects.  I noticed she wasn't eating her grain when she jumped on the stantion, and I walked over and I noticed it hanging down.  She didn't act in pain, and liked it when I rubbed it.  I'm almost wondering if she got stung there or something.  This lump didn't bother her, as she was just as vocal as ever.

In the pictures, you can see it hanging down.  The vet said that it wasn't an abcess, and in about two days it was completely gone, not even a trace that she had had it.

Daisy, demanding to know why she has gotten all this attention.  She is completely fine now, and you can't even tell that her sleek neck once had this lump.

Sad to say, we are going to sell the babies.  Also, we think that we are not going to breed the nannies this year, but are going to give them a break.  This decision is not final yet, though.

Bunny in the sunset

 Sundae

 Puddins.  She milks the most, even more than Minty now.

Starburst

Minty

Rose Petal

Morning Glory

 Daisy

Before I end this post, I have to put Frosty on.  He is so cute! The baby girls are out in his pasture now, getting bred.  A couple weeks ago, he had broke out of his pasture and in with the nannies! He didn't breed them though.

That's all for now!! 

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