Went down to the garden early this morning and got my basket full!!  It rained off and on all morning but it was a lot better than the sun and high humidity we usually have at 6 a.m. so picked until Norman came and helped me finish up.  In a little over an hour we got enough beans to can 7 quarts and 8 pints.  Right now Norman is timing the last load of beans.  We also got a basket full of cucumbers , zucchini and tomatoes.  Tomorrow we will can more dill spears and have the zucchini for dinner as well as green fried tomatoes.  I did a little weeding around the beans so I could get at them and the bees liked that as they followed me to the new blossoms.  Those first two rows are still producing and blooming.  The new plants in the old potato bed are full of blossoms also so I’ll get lots more beans before we have to leave them for the new owners.  I guess my dream of getting a hundred quarts from the garden was not far off if we could stay until frost.  The Chinese yard long beans are growing right up the poles now and should produce well for the new owners.  I will miss the parsnips, they are getting very big.  No a lot of them but nice sized but they are no sweet enough until after at least the second hard frost.  They are best if you wait until Feb. or March to dig them up.  When we were in New Hampshire it was nothing to have a parsnip the weighted a pound each and so sweet!!  I bet these will be just as big.  Right now I know why we sold this place– my back is broken- as my mother used to say.  The canning of the tomato sauce didn’t hurt my back because I sat in a hard chair all day but today I sat in my recliner to cut the beans and that really killed my back.  I guess next time I’ll sit up at the table to cut the beans as it isn’t worth it to have such a back ache.  The tomatoes bothered Norman’s back more than the beans have today but he agrees with me – we are just too old to be doing this stuff anymore and that is why we sold the farm for a lot less than we have in it.  I know the new owners know what a good deal they are getting and hope they enjoy it as much as we have for the past nine years.  Have a great day.