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It's that time of year again
It seems like yesterday
When Mother started canning
And took us from our play
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We had to go 'way under the house
To get the canning jars
Fighting bugs and spider webs
While crawling on all fours
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Huffing and puffing, trip after trip
We dragged the boxes out
Then we got to wash the jars
All dreading it, no doubt
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Hot, soapy water in a number three tub
But first we had to rinse
Jars with bugs and old dried food
The memory still makes me wince
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Before the days of wide-mouth jars
The kids with the smallest hands
Had to wash inside the jars
While the others scalded the bands
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When the jars were sparkling clean
It was time for them to boil
In another big tub of water
It was tote and lift and toil
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Others gathered and cleaned the veggies
And got them ready to can
The jars were filled and put in a tub
Then cooked for a half-day span
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The process repeated over and over
Till the old wash house was filled
With hundreds of jars of good canned food
Mother always looked so thrilled
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A really harsh taskmaster
Mother pushed us with everything in her
But she was wise and she knew that
We'd need it all come winter
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Kathleen McCoy EldridgeŠ
August 10, 2005
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