I am finally back to normal and it is great!!  Today I started the day taking care of the apple I got on sale Monday.  There were only a dozen of them but until today I just couldn’t face doing anything with them.  This morning I made a large tarte.  Norman likes the tarte better than a pie, it is the same thing only it doesn’t have as much crust.  Instead of two crusts you use only the bottom crust rolled out larger, then when you put the apples in and spices you pull the crust up and over the apples leaving the very center open and cook it like any other pie.  That way there is no large thick crust around the pie.  It does take one less apple than a regular 9″ pie.  So I made one for today and then I cut, sliced, sugared and spiced three more tartes in alumium pie pans and froze them in gallon bags for winter.  Tomorrow I will pop them out of the pans and just leave them in the bags and double bag them into a 2 gallon bag to save freezer space.  Anyways, then I took the peelings and cores and made a jar of apple jelly which came out good. Norman worked in the garden tieing up tomatoes.  The treatments that he had been doing on the tomatoes seem to be working and it looks like we will get some tomatoes after all so they need to be tied up.  After I got the apples done,  I cut up two large zucchini and cooked up some tomatoes.  Norman came in and helped me can the zucchini, we got five pints from those two large zucchini.  By then it was time to get the chop soy made for dinner.  I used one of the Chinese cabbage from the garden, we only planted four seeds and have three nice cabbages so I guess we will put in more in the fall garden.  After dinner we stayed inside because of the heat.  Everyone got rain today except us so after supper we had to go down and water the garden.  Things are growing well now, the beans are coming, even the new plantings and the kolrobi is ready to eat.  We ended the day by picking the last of the peaches.  We picked the last 21 peaches and the last cup of blueberries.  Tomorrow I will pick and cook the last of the beets and carrots.  Almost time to get the soil ready to plant a fall crop.  Will have to give it some thought.  Have a great day.