Pears...and the bottling continues

With the corn done we have begun to bottle pears. It's a big job getting all the fruit done for a growing family like ours. Today Michelle recruited help. Our 2 dear friends Kelley and Elisa came over and helped with the chore. The peeled and sliced for a couple of hours and finished 3 batches! And it was all done under the intense supervision of little Zach.

Our boys have been troopers...with Michelle preoccupied with getting ready for winter our boys have been left to themselves to enjoy the end of the summer. They have been sent into the backyard and left to themselves to discover all that our backyard has to discover. I think they've figure out most of it now. I think this partial exile from the house has forced the boys to begin using some of their imaginations to find ways to entertain themselves for these extended periods of time. A skill that I think is well worth developing.