Another big day with speghetti sauce making. I got out at 6 this morning to pick tomatoes, I got two big boxes full and had some in the summer kitchen already so we had about 50 pounds to do today. I got the onions, garlic etc all chopped before breakfast so we started right in on peeling and seeding tomatoes right after breakfast about 8:15. We finished that job at 1pm and stopped for peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches while the sauce was cooking. We started the sauce when we were about half done the peeling so it had a good start. After lunch and a short nap we put away the laundry that had dried on the line as we worked and made up the bed with the clean sheets then at 2:30 we started jaring up the sauce. We have just processed 7 quarts and have about a dozen more to go as soon as the pressure canner is cool enough to open, that takes about half an hour. Then we will have all the juice to process and that is somewhere around 10 quarts, I’ll give you the final totals tomorrow when we are done this evening sometime. This should be the last big day of tomato canning, it is so dry here now that the plants are dying and only the tomatoes on the vine now will make it. I’ll pick as long as there are ones ripening off and then pick all the small green ones and freeze those for this winter to use in cooking. They were great last year! Tomorrow we have to do about half of the grapes that are left on the vines and prune the vines as we go. We should get about 20 pounds again tomorrow. Looks like we will have all the juice we need for next year. Very tired so time to rest. Have a great day.
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