Chimmey cherry? Cherry Chunga?

So this past weekend was a very busy weekend for canning. All cherries. Cherry pie filling, cherry jam, cherries in syrup. I managed to score 12 quarts of sour cherries and 6 quarts of sweet cherries.
The sweet cherries I simply canned in a medium syrup to be enjoyed later. The sour cherries all became jam and pie filling

all the canned jars

7 jars of sweet cherries canned in medium syrup

6 small jars of sour pie filling. These actually weren't part of the 12 quarts I bought. They were from a big bowl that I picked from my parents sour cherry tree. They were super ripe so when I added the cherries to the pie filling mix (sugar, water and corn starch) it went really liquidy. Its more like cherries in syrup than anything

The first half of the cherry jam I made using a recipe from the Bernardin canning book. This recipe called for 5 cups of sugar for every 4 cups of cherries. It turned out super sweet and very liquidy. Not my favourite recipe and I probably wouldnt do it again. This was done with sour cherries but because of all the sugar it was so sweet that Talia labeled them as Sweet cherry jam

After the failed attempt of making jam I search for another recipe and found a "no recipe recipe" for cherry jam. This one used only 3 cups of sugar for every 4 cups of cherries and required a lot more boiling to thicken up the jam. It also uses the juice and zest of 1 lemon to help thicken it. I love this recipe and will definitely be doing it from now on. There are actually 2 more jars but at the time of taking pictures they were still processing in the canner

On an unrelated note, Talia got my a present on sunday. A Dr. Hooves vinyl figure. He currently lives on my desk at work (where I have met another brony like myself... part of me thinks the only reason Talia gave this to me was to get me to talk to the other brony).

But I digress. After chatting with Talia about figures for a nice long bus ride I decided that I wanted to make my own. I have actually been working on a 3d model of DJ pon3 in maya but I decided I wanted to try making it on my own. So on sunday night after canning all the cherries I sat watching mlp while attempting to sculpt a pony. I did make a head as well but the weight was wrong and the front legs couldnt support the head. I ended up destroying it while trying to shrink it but that was before I got the camera out.

I eventually scrapped the whole project because it wasnt working out for me but I would say this was sufficient enough of a success to try again. Oh, this was made using sculpy.

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