What I did last summer

What I did this summer? Certainly not blog. I canned. Well that and gardened. But mostly I just canned,

and canned,
and canned.

I am almost done. I have 2 more batches of tomatoes to do. I am at a loss though. If anyone has ideas please let me know. We have salsa, tomato sauce, tomato ketchup, tomato preserves (green, yellow and red), tomato soup, tomato juice, stewed tomatoes, and tomato paste. I was thinking maybe tomato compost with the last 40 pounds unless something better presents itself?

I have learned a lot about canning (especially that your children can be amazingly resourceful when left to their own devices). William and Davey played together really well. Will sort of took charge. He made sandwiches (bread, cheese, bread) for lunch one day when I kept putting it off... oops. He is only allowed to use a butter knife though so the cheese was more massacred than sliced. I was right in the kitchen with him and I had no idea that he was working on sandwiches... I won't be getting "mother of the year" this year.

We are all happy that it is done but more happy that we have a lot of (hopefully) good food. Now whenever William sees me cutting or freezing something he says :"Oh look we are going to have bananas (or whatever I am working on) ALL winter long."