harvest time

This morning was harvest day at the ward garden. Corn and tomatoes were supposed to be ready for picking. Yay! When  we arrived we discovered someone had come earlier in the week and picked any tomatoes that were ripe. There were none to be had :(  There was plenty of corn though :) We picked 4 large bucketsfull. I talked Dad and Tanner into helping me shuck the corn when we came home, and I've been canning since noon ( it's 6 pm and i'm still not done!) After preparing 36 pints for canning, I called another lady and offered to let her have the rest of my shucked corn. I'm only half done :p  I think I'll  can the rest tomorrow after church. I'm beginning to remember why I haven't canned anything that wasn't waterbath canned for awhile. Each batch takes so long to do. It's like 25 minutes to get up to pressure, then 55 minutes to process, and another 25 minutes to decrease pressure so you can take them out of the canner. That's almost 2 hrs. for 6 little pints.  Boy I can sure appreciate what our pioneer ancesters  went through. And they didn't even have awesome pressure cooker/ canners like we do!! Thanks heavens for modern conveniences!! :) I'M TIRED.  On a brighter note, I purchased peaches and pears for canning too. The pears are not quite ripe so I have a little time to get to those. I don't think I'll have  any peaches left by the time I get to them.The peaches are sooo yummy! We keep eating them for a sweet snack. mmmm yummy!