It has been a busy week down here in NC. The kids start back in their year round school. Two in first grade and one in fourth. They all were actually pretty eager to get back to school. The first week went well. Karen is a bit exhausted after spending most of her free time getting together school supplies, meeting all three teachers at a meet in greet, filling out three sets of information papers that seem to come home with the start of each new year. You'd think they could save it from one year to the next?! One week down, and they all are happy with their teachers. Shalo only came home with a "treasure" once, Aki only had "yellow" once... it doesn't get any better then that!
Can you say "Holy Tomatoes!" ....We spent two whole nights tackling this pile of tomatoes: first washing them, cutting stems out, then blanching them, then into ice water to help skins slide off, then in strainers to drain over night in the fridge. The next night cutting alot of peppers, onions, garlic, basil, and adding spices and cooking the whole lot about one hour, putting it in quart jars, and boiling in a water bath for 40 minutes, then going to bed exhausted at 11:15pm....I figure about an hour per jar of labor if you count the time picking them.
I have to keep reminding myself how good this will be inthe middle of winter! ....
And it better be, because I picked all of these Thursday night, after Karen and her Dad just picked them Monday morning!!!! Guess what we will be doing this weekend!
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