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May 19, 2023

Volume 4, Issue 9: Permission to Play

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Hi friends! Being that this weekend was the first Mother’s Day after losing my mom, I planned a whole day of distraction for Nicole and I. We got up quite early and drove about 45 minutes east to go mulberry picking. We picked six pounds of mulberries and it was 87 degrees by the time we were done. Then we stopped for In-N-Out Burger and headed back home so that I could have my first go at making shelf-stable jam with the mulberries. I’ve made refrigerator jam before, but I hadn’t canned anything yet. My friend let me borrow her equipment and I successfully made jam with half the mulberries on Sunday. I planned on making the other half into jam the following day after work. We went to bed on Sunday tired but pleased with ourselves.

Photo of a dozen plastic clamshell containers filled with mulberries sitting in a large box

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