Nancy gets a little too excited at the prospect of cheap strawberries

After canning 20 jars of cherries, I was feeling like the Food Preservation Queen. I borrowed my mother-in-law's 30 year old fruit dehydrator and dried a bunch of cherries. The dried cherries resemble large raisins, with a hole in the middle where the pit/stone was punched out. 

Yesterday, Russ went shopping and came back with a few pounds of strawberries that he had purchased for 75 cents per pound, a fabulous price. Later, I drove back to the store and bought 24 pounds of overly-ripe strawberries. I prepared them for drying as soon as I got home and today, a day later, they're nearly done.