With gardening time just around the corner (finally!!), I start thinking back to when I was a kid. We would have a small garden at home, but my grandpa loved gardening and had a big one every year. Mom and us kids would go help grandma at canning time in exchange for some canned items to take home. I remember snapping beans and shelling peas in particular. I can't really recall if I liked doing it or not. Wouldn't have mattered any way, we still had to do it!

Now when I do the canning, I wish I could call grandma with a canning question, or grandpa with a gardening question. I have some of grandpa's old gardening books. Guess that will have to do.