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But I have an excuse…

By Karen, on November 21st, 2008

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>

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The American Four Square Tomato Farm

By Karen, on August 18th, 2008

We spent a great deal of time processing veggies this weekend. The tomatoes are coming pretty fast & furious now….we are just trying to keep up.

We haven’t seen the big 3 or 4 pounder yet, but we have gotten some big. freakin’. tomatoes.

A one pound seven ounce Ele (or Elie or Ely). It’s a beautiful yellow orange tomato. Few seeds and a nice semi-sweet flavor.

The big Purple Cherokee. One pound five. I like the smaller ones better, it seems to me they have a richer flavor.

Making tomato puree. Psychedelic!!!

Dennis smoked a pork shoulder and a kielbasa which turned out just delicious.

After the pork came out of the smoker, we sliced some of our eggplant and then vacuum packed them and popped them in the freezer.

Oh, I also made spiced blueberry jam.

I think I might have slept at some point too……….

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Lately

By Karen, on August 11th, 2008

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:

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