Sometimes I like to pretend I'm 80-years-old

So my friend, Michelle, and I decided we should can a ton of pears that I got from my church. Without any help, we decided that after watching a 5 minute tutorial on how to can pears, that we were fully ready. I mean really, how hard could it be? The lady in the tutorial made it look incredibly easy. Anyway, we learned quite a bit along the way but here are the pictures to document the event. We felt pretty old...

Here are the jars we found SUPER CHEAP - thank you WinCo! I love WinCo - and I converted Michelle to become a WinCo lover as well.


This is what was left over. Half the box took us FOREVER. It was like pears kept appearing as we kept taking them out. Also, I'm pretty sure we did it too early, but the pears tasted fine afterward so no worries.

Here's the rest of the mess...

Our first can! Go us!