Carol stirring the bowl with the pear peels. Eventually Jim will turn them into delicous pear juice!
Jim adding many good pear pieces to one of their many glass jars
Three of the jars full of pears have been filled
Next Jim carefully fills the pear jars with sugar syrup almost (about 3/16") to the top -- the large black pot at the right holds boiling water in which they will be processed
The pear jars are then sealed with a flat top with a rubber sear around the outside and special outside screws to hold them tight against the jars
Carrefully sealing the 7th jar of pears
A steel string rack holds seven of the pear jars while they are lowered and raised from the boiling water
Jim has lowered the seven jars of pears into the boiling water
The seven jars of pears in the boiling water