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Ah, the joy, the satisfaction, the aching back and legs. Today marks the first round of tomato canning from the garden. A small batch, 10 1/2 quarts. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="410" caption="Tomato Puree"] [/caption]
I hate it while I’m doing it, but I love it when I can grab a big jar out of the pantry on a snowy winter day. Onward…to the Advil bottle. It’s been forever since I’ve posted, I know (I know!). Busy summer and busy fall. We are finishing up the canning…just apples and squash left. I’ll post more on the garden totals next time. A really good harvest this year. I am making it a goal this year to update both this and my And Another Thing blog on a regular basis.
I looked at the blog(s) today and noticed that I have not posted since, well, forever. We are still here. Much canning of tomatoes and assorted veggies, a big ol’ batch of apple butter & apple pie filing, and canned butter (oh yes, you can do that) has taken a big chunk of time. There was also the clay oven we build that took a few weekends, see here. Then, I just got tired… Oh! Also, I decided to try knitting. Just another thing to do. Boy, am I having trouble with tension. The end of my rows are fine, but the middle seems to be just really so tight. Any suggestions on that? Hopefully, things will start to settle down to a more normal pace and I can post a bit more frequently. Except for, you know, that whole holiday thing… <sigh> I’ve been trying to decide on a new theme for the blog (I just don’t have time to do one myself), so I’ve been trying several different ones out for the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I forgot to add the Sitemeter code to the footer, so I have no idea who’s been visiting. Please take a moment to say hello in the comments section. Sometimes, I wonder if anyone is really reading us. Also, we spent all last weekend harvesting and canning & dehydrating the corn and tomatoes from the garden. We have quite a few eggplant to deal with yet and more tomatoes are coming, so next weekend will probably be a food processing couple of days too. Here are a couple of pictures of some of the tomatoes we pulled out of the overgrown rainforest that is our garden: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Mortgage Lifter, Golden Jubilee, Northern Lights, Green Zebra, Old Ivory Egg. Purple Cherokee, Amish Paste"] [/caption]
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