Tastes Like Summer!! A Canning Adventure

We live very close to Palisade, Colorado.  We have family on the front range, and they keep telling us how amazing the peaches are!  Since we moved here essentially at the start of winter, we missed out on the produce that Colorado has to offer.  Well, the lavender festival was in Palisade this weekend, and we decided to check it out (and let's be serious, to buy some fresh local lavender), one simply can't venture to Palisade during peach season & not buy any peaches! So we bought a pile of peaches! 

We had just picked up the tools for canning to keep things tasting amazing when there are no more.  Back to the peaches.. mmmmmmm peaches.  Between the lavender and the fresh peaches, the truck smelled amazing on the way home. 

I put Mr. Wonderful to work chopping & stirring the golden sweet deliciousness.

We boiled our jars & lids & filled them & processed them and patiently awaited that happy little "SNAP!" (letting us know that they are safe to store... And eat .. Err I mean gift to friends & family!)

Not too bad for our first attempt at canning/preserving.  I can't wait to try other things!