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September 03, 2008 02:38 pm

Ramon and Carolyn Lara are preserving jars and jars of apricots this summer because their backyard tree is loaded with the fruit. They try to keep at least a two-year supply of preserved fruit because some years don’t give a good yield. (Baker City Herald/S. John Collins)

Ramon and Carolyn Lara hardly even pause their conversation as they preserve apricots — a process so familiar to their summer lives it’s second nature.

“That’s the background we were from,” says Carolyn, 69, as she pits a bucket full of apricots picked from their own tree.

Beside her, Ramon, 70, keeps watch over the jars heating in the water bath.

Then they sit a spell to visit because this canning business takes time — 22 minutes of boiling, to be exact.

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