Monthly Archives: January 2017

Winter in Florida

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

6:20 am and the temperature is 35 degrees in my back yard.  Coldest morning all winter.  It has been a very warm winter but this week the cold front has really cooled things off.    We had a wonderful week … Continue reading →

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Late Christmas Presents

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

I never got my canning done in time for Christmas but now am done!  Sunday Tom and Roxanne are coming here for lunch and then taking us to the Play at the local Play House to see the play “Wrong … Continue reading →

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More Tomatoes

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

Went to the Easy Street Farm Store Market again on Wednesday and got two boxes of the Roma plum tomatoes.  This morning we are processing one box.  These are first run tomatoes, nothing like the canning tomatoes we are used … Continue reading →

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Update On The Tomatoes

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

Here are the first 16 pints of spaghetti  sauce.  We got 28 pints in all plus 4 pints of tomato juice.  That was very good, some of the reason was because they were Roma tomatoes which are meatier than table … Continue reading →

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Spaghetti Sauce

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Carol (Ouma) Petts

We have been here for about a year and a half now and finally ran out of our homemade spaghetti sauce.  We tried a can of store bought sauce and I decided either I had to make some more sauce … Continue reading →

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