the neigbhorhood's plum jam

i have been eying that plum tree for a while, but just never went over with a bucket until today. i have brought home a hand or two of the sweet little fruit in the past weeks. but this time, i collected a whole bucket full of ripe fallen plums.
one neighbor stopped by and congratulated me on "harvesting" those wonderful little plums. and mentioned, that he himself was also getting a bucket full last week, though he picked the plums from his ladder...
well, in my case, it really doesn't matter, as i was planning on cooking jam all along. and so i ended up boiling and straining and the fruit. mesuring, adding some ground cinnamon and lemon juice, as well as sugar, 1/2 the weight of the cooked fruit's weight, as i like it not super sweet.
boiling this all and filling 20 jars (different sizes) of the delicious very nice and deep red looking jam.
for the cleaning up of the kitchen, wow some unexpected help was jumping to the sink and washed all the pots and ladels.
i just had to write a the labels and will be able to put it all in the pantry downstairs by tomorrow morning...