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Well, I am sort of tired....today was the first canning day of the season. Still facing a mountain of pots etc but feeling an overwhelming sense of gratitude to the land, the family who nurtured the tree, my mother and grandmother who taught me to can, my son who helps me every year. You know, if I talk about cooking, canning, quilting, gardening, needlepoint, etc, I am using them as a microcosm of bigger things. Just as my husband and I learned so many things from our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents all of us have a responsibility to pass on some of those same time honored traditions, loves, and skills to the future.