A quiet weekend

Sunday made 34 years of happy marriage for Jay and I! And we did NOTHING special to celebrate it! LOL I got up feeling all stuffed up and achey. So I went back to bed and slept till 1:30. Then it was watch sports and Amazing Race.
Today Jay had another dentist appointment and that means drugs. He slept most of the afternoon after we got home. I however, did some Goodwill Christmas shopping and am quite pleased with my finds. One is for me. A china bank that is blue and white and looks like a wind mill. The bottom says "hand painted Delft." Thought it should come home with me for $1.99!!

Pear butter 1

Ok, here's one of the activities I got done this week. It took longer then I had thought it would because of going north but I'm sure happy with the finished product. Dick, the neighbor next door, gave me the pears so other then buying three container for the freezer this was free pear butter and you can't find that to buy anyway!!
Jenna, you inspired me.



Here they are. the pears from Dick's over achieving tree. I only got about a peck but it was enough to get them ready! My hand didn't like that much time with the knife!

Here they all are, cut and seeds out ready to be cooked down.

I only had about an inch of water when I started. All the rest of the juice is from the pears.

I had help with the sieving. We kept alternating bowls and in the next post you'll see just how much we got.
I also added some sugar, clove, all spice, nutmeg to the mix so it is a spiced butter.

Pear butter 2

Here is the crock pot, full of the pulp, ready to cook down. Little did I know just how long that was going to take!

Out of everything in the pot when we started cooking the pears, this is all that was left when we got it all sieved. Pretty good idea of why they went to the work of doing all this if you really got that much out of the fruit!

Here it is starting to cookdown. We started this on Wens. and let it cook all night. It didn't get very far so we ended up putting it in the fridge while we went north for Poppa D's birthday. Came home and let it cook all night on high.

And this is what we got! That's it. that's all the pear butter but boy is it good. the little one is in the fridge just to be eaten adn the other two are in the freezer for later!