Preserving day.....

Today is all about preserving some of our beautiful home grown yellow peaches. There is no way we can possibly eat all our fresh peaches and so I stew and bottle as many as I can for eating throughout the year. The bottled stewed peaches make the best peach crumbles and other desserts for the winter months when fresh peaches are just a memory.
I have also been making some bread and butter cucumbers but these don't last very long in our pantry. They are delicious with cold meats, cheese, wine and biscuits.
The chickens have been fed and watered, washing done. DH Farmer has completed the morning's milking, the tanker has picked the milk up, a semi load of grain has been delivered and unloaded in the silo, breakfast has been eaten and it is only 9 am.
DH Farmer is off to work on the farm.
A rural life is busy......

Yesterdays preserving and today's work waiting.

Peach trees netted to keep the birds and flying foxes away!