Asking for Work

I'm a little crazy...

Apples from my brother's tree, a laundry basket of pears from a friend, and a few bags of sweet corn. 

Some of the corn got cooked right away for supper. Unfortunately, the ears that didn't get cooked dried out before I could get to them. G fed them to the chickens and ducks who thoroughly enjoyed them. 

The apples are still hanging out in the garage. They should be good there for a while. The pears on the other hand... 

Pears ripen from the inside out. They also ripen within a few days of being picked. I sorted through the laundry basket organizing them by ripeness. I ended up with a small bucket of green, a slightly larger amount of yellow green, and a big tote of ripe and ready. Less than half a five gallon pail had bruise marks and less than half a gallon were completely bad/tossed out. 

The bruised ones got cleaned up and cooked into sauce. I might turn them into freeze dried melties for Jaron. A load of pears is in the freeze dryer with a second load in the freezer to go in next. I'll probably can the rest if Jaron cooperates. He's been under the weather and therefore doesn't want me out of arms reach all day. 😵‍💫