Well its that time of the year again. Canning Season. My mom didn't do any of this growing up. So I know absolutely nothing about it. I am so intrigued by it, and really want to can food for my family. I find it to be such a satisfying experience. Last year I was lucky enough to have my friend Laurel Collins help me can Peaches. Laurel had a baby the day the fruit came in this year. And its been harder and harder to get together. So I had decided that I was going to look up info on the web and try things myself this year. I bought two boxes of apples and planned on canning apple pie filling.
My first batch did not seal. We have a glass/smooth top stove, and I think that was part of the problem. I talked to the MSU extension the next day and got some help on how to fix them. Although the fix didn't end up perfect. At least it was only six cans to start. I still had a box of apples left and had been fretting a bit about doing them on the stove. I had read more information about how it is actually not a good idea to do it on glass top stoves because you can damage your stove doing so.
Heavenly Father answered my prayers with a call from my friend Melanie Morgan (she is the Young Womens president I serve with at church). She said she was doing her apples and thought she should call me to see if I needed help with mine. I brought all my stuff to her home today and canned away. I learned so much from her. She started helping her mom can when she was about Taylees age! I'm sure it was frustrating to watch me knowing nothing, but she had a lot of patience and was so sweet about everything. I'm so thankful for her. We ended up with 11 more jars of filling, four of them done a little differently to put in the freezer.
Its funny I was just telling Brandon last night that I think I can really learn a lot from her. I miss mom so much. Although she didn't always have a ton of working knowledge in things that I wanted to learn, she was always helpful and supportive. Its strange feeling that such a simple thing like canning can make me feel so alone and I guess for lack of a better phrase almost abandoned? But Heavenly Father knew this and answered my prayers with sweet Melanie. I am so thankful for her, and to him for knowing my heart. It sounds so silly over such a small thing. But that's the awesome thing about it, those little things in our lives are important to him too.
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