We picked a huge plastic box full of pears about a week and a half ago. No surprise, they are all perfectly ripe right now. We can’t eat them or can them fast enough! But as I’m the queen of overachieving, I made a go of it!

Today I canned 10 lbs of pears (10 jars) and made two batches of pear butter (12 lbs)! I lost count of the jars. I lost one, it exploded in the final hot water bath and made a huge mess.

I love that our home provides food for us, but it is so exhausting! I feel really bad though when the fruit goes bad before I can use it. Serious guilt! I also found 13 jars of preserves from last year’s harvest!