Twenty plus years ago we lived on a farm. About 250 acres of a farm. Our portion was only about an acre. We loved our acre. I loved our acre. Who knew I would love country life, but I did like no other. We had fruit trees and a garden that produced wonderful tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, squash, beans, corn, onions, radishes, Swiss chard, watermelon, cantaloupe, raspberries and wild black berries. What was not to love? We just loved it all. One year we canned over 100 jars of tomatoes. It was amazing. We also made fruit leather out of all the apricots. It was a crazy process. After treating the apricots with sulfur to keep the apricots from turning dark, we took off all the screens from the windows in our home and put the apricots on them to dry outside. The summer sun did its job and soon we had beautiful, wonderful, tasty dried apricots. Oh and the apricots that were overripe we made into fruit leather. We used our station wagon to dry them! It was a wonderful time in our life.
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Window screens! Very resourceful! Just curious, though, about the car and the fruit leather. How'd that work?
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