Pickin and Scratchin

Well, I helped the friendly neighborhood organic farmer pick his crops for market today.   He had me on


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TOMATOES!!!

I spent three hours picking his cherry tomato crop for market.  Ended up with two 5 gallon buckets full of red ones, yellow ones, black ones, just a great mix.  That's a lot of cherry tomatoes.  If you figure one tomato for one tablespoon, that's 256 tomatoes in 1 gallon, times 10 = 2560 tomatoes!!!!  I was in the greenhouse and man was it like the Amazon.  I was ready to get out in the dry (relatively) heat.  I figure the best way to pay him for his largesse is to pick for him since he is hurting for workers.

When I got home, I processed the toms I got yesterday and got 5 more quarts, but one didn't seal, so really only 4 to keep and 1 to eat.  Spaghetti tomorrow night.

I'm getting better, but I still have too much air space.

After that I played around with my new toy, my DEMY, the electronic recipe book

too cool

This way, I can have all my favorite recipes in the kitchen without having to try to remember which book I got it out of.  It can download recipes that I upload at the Key Ingredient website.  It's going to take some time to upload all my faves, but I'll get it done eventually.

Then I went to the garden and got three more zucchinis, one was too big so I will use it for seed next year, some beans, some dill and some basil and made steamed squash and rockly marinated in razzberry vinegrette for din din.  I didn't get enough beans for a mess, but there will be more tomorrow.

Then walkies and bug art.

almost the greek letter lambda in mirror image

This really looks like an attempt at writing.

I think they are trying very hard to communicate.

And a close up of landscape.

here ya go, Sister Sister

Lastly, a picture of the sun on grape leaves.  So artsy fartsy.

sun on leaves

Day is done.  

Oh, almost forgot the scratchin part.  Seems that I got into a nest of chiggers yesterday.  I got like 15 bites all over and am trying desperately not to scratch myself bloody.  I forgot to put off on ONE day and this happens.  

But I still love the country.

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