What I hate about canning….

The dishes!  We have 4 people living in our house.  We don’t have a dishwasher and we don’t have a good place to add one.  When you are preserving – using canners, strainers, food mills, crock pots etc., you dirty lots of dishes.  I actually don’t hate the dishes that much, but I really hate the drying!  I usually spread them out as much as possible so they can dry naturally while I do other things.  After I overflowed our drying rack, I spread out a bath sized towel on our kitchen table for the rest.  I was sure glad when everything was dry and put away.  I won’t be doing dishes this week in Hawaii and I’m happy about it!