1) Last week I said we were going to the Oregon Zoo with Paige on Tuesday… well, I had hoped to be able to share pictures this week, but plans changed and we ended up having to stay home and wait for UPS to bring a very special package… so we will be going to the zoo next Thursday instead.
2) So, you might be wondering what package was so important that we had to stay home from the zoo to wait for it…
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3) We harvested about 125 strawberries from our garden on Tuesday & Wednesday, and then spent Wednesday afternoon making strawberry freezer jam, strawberry sauce, and strawberry fruit leather.
We began with just short of 8 cups of cut up strawberries.
After about 30 minutes of stirring, the strawberries were ready to be made into freezer jam, strawberry sauce, and strawberry fruit leather.
Our finished products…except for the fruit leather – it was only about half done baking at this point, but we had to take it out so we could make dinner. It didn’t finish drying, even after being left out overnight, so this morning, David put it back in the oven. Either the oven was too hot, or it stayed in too long, because when we took it out, it had crystallized instead of just drying out. So, it’s not exactly fruit leather anymore…