Pears!

We have a pear tree in our backyard. I hate pears, so I kind of just ignore it. Last year the girls ate one pear each from the tree before I went back to ignoring it. This year, I have some more time on my hands, so Dan got the ladder out and picked all the pears from the tree last week. We had to get them early, or the darn squirrels eat them first. We let them ripen... and this morning I spent a better part of three hours peeling, coring, cutting and canning all the pears with  a cinnamon pear recipe Dan came across on the internet. Don't get me wrong... I'm still not a fan of pears, but I have to admit- the color of the ripe pears was amazing...  Yeah, I'm a nerd... but they were so, so pretty! I wish the basket of fake ones I have on my kitchen table as a centerpiece were as colorful! 

Oh, and three hours of work? We managed 6 (SIX?!?!) quarts of cinnamon pears!