It's summertime, and things are starting to ripen here at the ranch.  This week we stripped the apricot trees of as many as we could reach, and the farm wife made apricot jam.  The best thing with jam making is you can use the apricots that have a fault, such as a bird peck, to make jam, since you only need to cut out the bad part, and the rest is perfectly good.  This batch is really good, and it will be especially so this winter when it's cold and rainy, to be able to taste a bit of jellied summertime on toast or waffles.

The internet is an incredible resource, and in my travels, I found this post about corn cob jelly.  
Naturally, since corn is abundant this time of year, the wife and I had to try something so off beat, so we acquired some sweet corn and followed the directions.   First time, we got the jelly just about right, and you can see one of the jars above on the left.  The chickens got the last peck at the boiled cobs, and there were no complaints from that quarter when we tossed them into the coop (Chickenmom, I know you'll relate to that).   Talk about dragging the most use out of something!

Next up is probably the figs, and the monstrous fig tree is loaded this year.  I'm really looking forward to that.  After that, Indian Blood peaches, and then finally, the pomegranates.