God's Blessings

A trunk load full of more frozen fruit arrived at our house tonight. Our freezer was full from the last round, so I removed anything at all that didn't *need* to be frozen, rearranged, and here you see the very full result. I froze probably 6 - 8 gallon bags of small diced peaches, 3 - 4 times that of diced apricots. I also am finishing up canning 10 quarts of blueberry syrup. I was a very good girl and got up at 6:30 this morning. It's now 3:36 AM, and I am *tired!* I have a busy day ahead of me too. Sleep's overrated, right?

I *am* so grateful for the abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables that God has blessed us with. He has done far beyond what I ever thought or imagined when I asked to Him to bless our garden. In addition to the produce of our garden, we have received likely 200 pounds or more of frozen fruit. Wow. Staggering. I am sure thanking Him tonight for such abundance and for our freezer which is very old, very large and, for today, still working.

Catching Up in Photos

It's 2:12 AM, and I'm waiting for blueberry syrup to boil for eight minutes so it can go in the canner. It's been a while (again) since I posted, so I thought I'd post pictures of things around here recently.

God's Provision

Yesterday I brought home 80 pounds of frozen blueberries, almost 10 gallons of frozen peach puree, and about 5 gallons of frozen, cubed pears - for only the price of the gas it took to pick it up. It seems that a storage facility (in Marengo Cave) had a damaged pallet(s) of fruit. Some friends received half of a pick-up load of this product. They began to make offers to others, including us. I'm so excited and very, very grateful. One of the things we've had to cut back on over the last year is fruit. From this blessing and others in past months, I have so much fruit in my freezer now that it seems an endless bounty.

The picture is of a pot of spaghetti sauce that I made today with tomatoes from our garden and ground beef that a friend shared. It also has zucchini from our garden and fresh garlic from a friend's house. I imagine it will fill at least 10 quart jars. Next to the spaghetti sauce you can see a pressure canner that has 7 quarts of green beans from our garden. A friend and I canned my favorite relish several weeks ago, yielding 9 pints. This was made with cucumbers and green tomatoes from our garden, as well as other ingredients that I got at bargain prices.

I already have several containers of cubed zucchini in the freezer and 1 1/2 gallon bags of green beans, both from the garden.

It is such a wonderful thing to watch the abundance which flows from the hand of our God! I am humbled and grateful for it all.