One more long day working on the harvest.  We started at 6 picking grapes.  We needed to finish them up today as the soil is so dry now the grapes are falling to the ground or else some critter is getting into the grapes and making a mess!  Either way they needed to be picked.  We got four big boxes full and then we sat down and picked them off the stems, washed and weighed them.  We worked until noon and had them about half done and had 24 pounds of just grapes ready to cook.  After dinner we mashed and cooked the grapes for 15 minutes and put them in the fruit press.  We had to do it in two lots as they would not all fit into the press at one time.  We got seven quarts of juice – then I had to add 3 quarts of sugar.  I used just a little less than the last time because there were more purple grapes this time which makes the juice sweeter-  and I saved out one cup to make drinks for us, it is so good and one cup of juice makes a quart of drink.  Then we canned and processed 7 quarts of the sweetened juice concentrate and had almost 2 quarts left to make jelly with tomorrow.  We also got more graped picked and cleans and have 14 pounds already to work up tomorrow after I pick and clean the last that are in the box.  Tomorrow I will pick and clean while Norman goes for his walk and after breakfast we go to McMinnville to the farmer’s market and Walmart where we will get a few more jelly jars.  After dinner we will mash, cook and can the last of the grapes and should have 8 or 9 quarts.  We will not process these until we see how many we need for jelly.  We will hot pack them so they will seal and thus keep for as many days as I need before making jelly, then I will process the remainder for long term storage.  We went down to the garden to see if we need to do tomatoes again and yes by Thursday we need to do more speghetti sauce and some cucumber/onion relish and I found two more very large zuchinni, how I missed those I will never know but I will grate those and freeze them for use in bread and pancakes this winter.  Now it is time to have supper and sit and rest for the evening.  Have a great night.