Starting to fill it up

 After putting the edge guards on this morning, I moved all the jars over to the shelves. I moved the canning pots and stock pots, too. We have peaches and two kinds of green beans. The tomato sauces will be coming soon.

Utility room upgrade

First thing this morning, Natalie and I took down all the pots and pans from the wall and pulled out the wire shelf that was in the utility room. After washing the wall down, she started painting it.

It went from sort-of white to a medium grey.

Then it was my turn. I got the rails all put up and we figured out the shelf spacing. We were going to have 4 8" shelves and a 12" one at the top for the big canning pots and stock pots. There was enough room to add an extra 8" shelf in the middle.

We can now stack the pint jars side by side and they can also be stacked two high, if we need to do that. Quart jars will all be single file. Lots of extra storage space and it looks nicer, too!
 

More beans canned

 I picked two more buckets of beans this morning. We had some of them for dinner and I canned 14 more pints, 6 Blue Lake and 8 Roma.

Good start on beans

Yesterday, Heather and I started canning the beans. We picked the Romas (italian beans) first. We got 13 pints of them put up.

This morning, I went through the Blue Lake variety and got another bucket full. It took most of the morning, but I got 6 more pints put up. I am getting a little quicker at it the more I do it.
 

Canning season has begun

Natalie and I started this morning with the peaches Lisa picked up for us from the peach truck. We got 10 pounds, but ate several before the canning started.

We still got 9 pints put up.

Heather and I checked the garden later this afternoon and found a bunch of the beans were ready. These are the Roma. We canned 13 pints tonight. The Blue Lake are loaded as well, but they will have to wait until tomorrow. The summer squash is also producing, with more ready in a couple more days.