Tttttt-tomatoes!

Time to go down into the basement and pull up the food mill attachment for the mixer..... Yeee hawww!

Have enough cherry/slicing tomatoes getting way too ripe, ready for about 2 gallons of juice and about 2 gallons of sauce tomatoes that I am debating: sauce or just can whole.... hmmm.... Maybe just can whole and see what that does. The juice I will freeze, reserving a cup or two for Bloody Mary's with brunch this weekend! (oo la la!)

This weekend I made three quarts of hamburger dill chips. They turned out really delicious. I am getting brave and not following the pickle recipes to the letter. I took a couple kinds of pickles to the bible school picnic Friday night, and had many compliments on my sour garlic dills and bread and butter pickles. Alannah was remembering Grandma G.G.'s icicle pickles, so we found the recipe and got a gallon of them going. They take two weeks to make--it is quite an event, but will be worth the effort: A very syrupy sweet, impossibly green and strangely iridescent pickle.

We ate our first sweet corn last night for dinner. Inadvertently, as I was merely cleaning off stalks that were knocked over by the skunks. (or whatever) I realized that there were really ears that were ready to eat! They were SO GOOD.

Scott built planter boxes for under/along the deck. There appears to be enough Summer left to start some late crops of onions and lettuce at least, maybe some more peas. Maybe we will get ambitious this week and fill them. I think there were still seeds for sale at Stop and Shop--Otherwise I will have to go digging in the junk drawer because I think I ran across some left over ones there a couple weeks ago. (scary junk drawer!)

VBS was last week, and I have a feeling anything that comes along this week (errr...or doesn't) will be seriously anti-climatic. The kids are BORED. I keep trying to give them jobs every time they say they are bored, but they actually like having the jobs--that is how bored they are!!!!! (I don't know what their problem is--we were never bored!?!)

Hey......!!!!!!!
I'm not bored--I WISH I could risk being just a little bit bored!!!!

We are way over due for a Six Flags trip, so hopefully the last of the hoodies can be shipped this week, and we can get up there again within a couple of days. It is going to be HOT for most of the week, with at least three days predicted to be close to 90. (yuck!) Not much better place to be than the water park.