Out of the goodness of her heart she set aside a row just for me. And on the days she did the picking she brought them to me (I was able to help her on the morning of July 4th). I guess after a few pickings she had plenty of her own so she started giving me the entire picking from her huge patch. I was very grateful.
With that I made Freezer Jam. Mmmm mmm mm it is quite yummy. I made Raspberry, Blackberry (bought those berries at Costco) and Black and Raspberry Jam.
Once the apricots on my parents trees were ripe I went ahead and made more jam. Plus a bunch of leather (it's not all shown in this picture) and after all that I didn't want to do anymore so I just dried the rest of the apricots.
We have enough jam to last quite awhile. And I'm totally OK with that. I don't know what it is about homemade jam, but it is FAR better than store bought. Which I guess could be a bad thing because now I'm much more tempted to eat a piece of toast with butter and jam on it.
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