Sisters are awesome. I should know. I have four of them. Only my oldest sister is married besides me, so the others are often able to come for a visit and help with the various projects we have going. It’s free help along with good conversation, and I love it! My sister Joanna is here right now and with her help we have been getting a lot done toward our move to Alaska.
First we got the freezers sorted. I have two small chest freezers and have been hoarding the meat and frozen fruit we have to take up to Alaska with us. So Joanna and I filled one freezer to take to AK, and the food that is left in the other freezer we will eat up before we move.
Joanna also helped me get my canned goods ready to go. My mother-in-law let me use some shelves in her cellar for food storage, so I put up a lot of food last summer to take with us on our move – provided we can get it through Canada. I have 84 qt. of green beans, 35 qt. of sweet potatoes, 20 qt. of potatoes, 49 qt. of blackberry juice, 30 qt. grape juice, 32 qt. of corn, 65 qt. of tomato juice, 15 qt. broth, and 8 qt. of chicken. I also canned some salsa, soups, tea concentrate, apple pie filling, and apple butter, plus a bunch of sausage we got from butchering a pig.
It is so much, and so heavy, that Andy is starting to worry about weight. Our trailer has a weight limit of 10,000 lbs, and if your entire rig gets over 26,000 lbs, you have to have a CDL to drive it. Since neither of us have a CDL license, we might just start using some of those canned goods now so we don’t have to haul them all to AK with us. The weight of the canned goods comes to around 1,800 pounds.
So Joanna helped me wipe all the jars off and haul them up from the cellar – no little job as the boxes weigh 30 – 50 lbs each. I don’t know how I would have gotten that done by myself, even with my mother-in-law babysitting Gabe and Jasmine for me.
Yesterday we took supplies up to the camper and cleaned it thoroughly to get it ready to sell. When we were finished I looked around and got a little teary at how bare and empty our first home looked. We can’t take it with us to Alaska though, so it has to be sold. Here are some of the pictures I took for Craigslist.
