It seems that I have a bug....
Not a bad one, mind you. I've had this bug before, but its been probably about oh, about twenty eight or nine years ago. OK, I'm being rude, sorry. I've gotten back into canning. Just after Mouse was born, I tried my hand at canning, and I have to say, I wasn't half bad at it. Mostly it was jams and jellies, and at one point I did some chokecherry wine. Where we (my ex-husband and I) lived was outside of Helena, there was a major over-abundance of chokecherry trees... everywhere . I absolutely loved learning how to can and I loved chokecherry jam! Then when we had to go through everything that we did with Andrea, separating and divorcing, I moved away from it. Literally. Fast forward to this year. A lot of things have changed. I've changed. I was Born Again; Andrea grew to be a very sweet woman; I've married my Best Friend, have another daughter who is absolutely a beauty, with my temper and her Dad's attitude (or is that the other way around...), a hand...