Pears Dancing Before My Eyes

This is the first year that we've actually had pears from our pear tree. Other years we've had hail or strong wind. I never knew how pears could stretch and stretch. With just one 5 gallon bucket I've made 7 pints of pear preserves (some with cinnamon), 10 cups of pear baby food and 2 trays of pear leather on my Ronco dehydrator. I'm so pleased with myself on the baby food. I cooked the pears down with, of course, no sugar added and stuck them in my Magic Bullet and voila out came the perfect consistency of baby pear food. I let them cool and put them in Tupperware containers to put in the freezer since it will be a few months before little Brooks is ready to eat them. I saved us quite a bit of money and now know where our food came from.