New permit

My 16 year old daughter passed her driver's permit test this morning. We have spent the day giving her her first driving lessons. My family stayed over one extra day to watch our youngest daughter so we could spend today focusing on Mary getting her permit and letting her have a positive first experience in her learning how to drive. It seems to have been a success.

My family was here this weekend and we spent a lot of our time doing canning and putting things up. We did 60 jars of canned peaches and 7 jars of peach filling Saturday evening. Yesterday afternoon and evening, we did dill and bread and butter pickles, corn and carrots. We also started sweet gherkin pickles which takes a couple of days. Many hands made light work althought my kitchen floor has probably never been this dirty before. It was very sticky from all the peach juice. It will take some definite arm strength to get it all cleaned up again.

In spite of all the canning we had time to visit and have a nice time.