Summer Stash!

Going to Mama's in the summer means "putting' up vegetables. We didn't get to Dublin until late this summer so we were only able to get peaches and field peas (my favorite) but what we got is delicious and will hold us for a while. It's important for children to have a hand in food preparation. These girls know that a lot of hard work goes into fresh food and they really appreciate it.

My mother knows how to "put up" anything. Somewhere, I have a picture of my grandmother that looks almost like this.

Abigail's favorite job was tasting every peach!

She did get in on the bagging. She picked up the peas one at a time and put them in, she refused the help of a spoon.