After a couple of weeks neglect, I finally got to the garden over the weekend. Saturday D3 and I pulled a bunch of weeds. Papa and I took down the fence, then we mowed the neglected yard. Of all the crazy things, yesterday I picked 7 buckets of tomatoes. Seven five-gallon buckets. I hauled them from the garden to the garage with the wagon, 2 at a time. It was 1:30 when I finished, and 2:30 when I got out of the shower, (had to scrub the shower, not sure I could get clean if I didn’t.) GS2 carried in all 7 and lined them up in the kitchen. I could recount the whole sad story, but it is probably enough to say that there was about 1 bucket that wasn’t ripe enough to can. The rest amounted to 49 quarts of tomato juice. 3 didn’t seal. Someone has got to carry them all downstairs. How do I get into these messes?
Aug 27