The pace is slowing down a bit so at least today we can pick what we want to do.  I picked the tomatoes and got only a half box, about 12 pounds so decided to wait until tomorrow’s picking to can these and we made jelly instead right after breakfast.  After I picked the tomatoes I weeded the strawberries a little while.  We got a good rain last night so the ground was wet enough to weed.  When the ground is too dry the weeds just break off and I don’t get the root so I wind up having to weed the same spot again.  We turned 2 quarts of juice into jelly and got 18 half cup jars full plus a cup jar full for us to use now.  The half jars are for Christmas presents for Becca’c co-workers and fiends and Patty’s nurses and friends.  They don’t sound like a large present but if we were to sell them we would have to charge $5 a jar and then I would have a hard time talking Norman into doing it because you don’t get much of anything for your time.  That is why we don’t sell at the farmer’s market – too much work, too hard and low low pay.  I don’t see how they do it!!  We will have to buy some tomatoes to finish the sauce we need for the family.  We can buy they by the box (20 or 25 pounds each) almost as cheap as we can grow them that is if we don’t count our time and work to  grow them.  This year they are going for $10-$12 a box so far.  I hope the go back down to the $8 before we are done canning.  We still have pears and apples to buy but the pears will not be ready until about Oct and the apples should be ready in September.   Norman is now working on cleaning up the grape garden.  He has two posts to move and  two new ones to put in, then he will put in 2 by 2 cross bars for the grapes to grow on and I will tie the vines that are there up to the cross bars and prun them to fit.  Then a good dose of horse manure and mulch should leave them set for winter.  And we still have the raspberry bed to finish and the stawberry bed to finish weeding and putting to bed for the winter.  Then there is just the vegetable gardens to clean up and put to rest for the winter.  You see there are lots of things to chose from and it is nice now to have a choice each day, now that the rush of harvest has slowed down.  Have a great day.