Dillon’s Great-Great Uncle John Stair Jr.

 Howdy all!

Special Howdy to Mom! Hey Mom!

My Mom saw Dillon’s picture on his birthday and left a comment! How exciting it was for Dillon to see his Granny computing. You’re a rock star Granny! Computing, traveling the world, its there anything you cannot do??

Granny also sent along an email picture of Dillon’s Great-Great Uncle John Stair Jr.

 Its true granny they look a lot alike! Dillon was pretty amazed. I was too I didn’t know I had a Great Uncle John or his twin!! LOL!

Hope you are having a wonderful time in Mt. Vernon! Hope Kath, made it there alright? Behave yourselves…Don’t tear up the town now! * grin*

We did some canning this weekend. The fruit trees didn’t produce this year on account of a late freeze. We got about 5 weary peaches and a few Red Chief Plums. So we bought fruit this year. We put up a few dozen Cherry Jam and on a whim Jack was digging through the fresh cuts of cherries ( no stones so he was having a field day!) and decided he wanted a banana to go along with all those cherries. He said something about Cherry Banana Jam. So I said if you find a recipe for it, I will make it!! LOL!

He found one for Rhubarb Banana Jam and I decided to give it a whirl and replace the Rhubarb with Cherries. I thought bananas could not be canned…but Lo’ and behold it worked!! Put up a half dozen of those, since its a new flavor and because Nathan absolutely hated it. “ Why mess with perfectly good cherry jam by putting other stuff in it? “ Why indeed! LOL!

Our cucumbers did okay this year so we made pickles, the drought make them bitter so we did bread and butters, a dozen jars. Not sure they will get eaten here, we are going through an off cycle with pickles. haven’t bought any this year.

We have so many green tomatoes and we are fixin’ to get a humdinger of a storm here this week. So I picked half the tomatoes and made a Green Tomato, Green Chile Salsa from them. Its crazy not to call it that, but since I had those peaches, so puny no one would eat them. I added them in and instead of tasting like tomato and chiles it tastes like peaches. Hot Peaches! LOL! Weird!

Jack dubbed it “Spicy Peach Salsa”

Anyhow, Jack LOVES it, he is talking to it he loves it so much. That man is such a food hound! Anyway, I made Mexican food for dinner just so he can use his new salsa. I think  we should re-name it Spicy Jack’s Peachy Green Hypnotic Talk-to-the-jar Salsa! *HooT!*

I wrote down the dreamed up recipe with a dry erase marker on the microwave.  It is very John Madden! Circles and arrows all over the place! Cross outs to. I love John Madden! If I ever met John Madden or Norm Abram I would make a complete fool of myself.

Once I started adding the peaches, well it was full tilt after that, there is dark chocolate, chocolate mint and apple mint from the garden. Even thought of pineapple in there, but didn’t have a can. ( to ALL my boys’ relief.)

Phew! A weekend of canning means a weekend of doing dishes!! If I never see another dish…

I needed some canning labels. I was going to print off some standard ones from the internet, but most of those are so standard they are boring and if they are specific they’re too specific KWIM?? Plus,  I need practice with printables. So I built some. 

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http://www.4shared.com/file/120773846/bf37c1e1/jodiann_canning_labels.html

Credits:

Kim B Designs.

For the Christmas Greenery I used a font call Trees and Leaves.

Included in this freebie are…

4 digital pages to print done 300 ppi.

2 pages with the summer pattern labels and tags in 2 sizes.

     1 for pint jars and one larger scale for quart jars.

2 pages with Christmas pattern labels and tags.

     Same deal 2 sizes for pint and quart jars.

Quart size scaling includes circle for top that fit wide mouth jar lids.

I also added some basic instructions in the Credits File included with the download. These pages are scaled to 8.5 x 11 inch paper for easy printing. You are welcome to add your own text to the files. Patterns with some horizontal lines were chosen to favor handwriting the labels. I always need help staying on the straight and narrow! *grin* Especially when I am writing!

Make Great Gift Tags, BTW. I printed some on heavy card stock and they work nicely with a hole and string.

Yakkity Yak!

This was to be a short post! * guffaw *

Happy Monday!