the little wild kingdom

[flowerbug]

picked the last round of tomatoes for canning today. about 100lbs (5 buckets of which 1 bucket was discarded due to rot or animal damage).

i'll be washing, sorting and canning some of these today but not sure how many i'll do until i get them done.

considering the weather and other issues i'm glad for this season and what it has provided so far and also glad to see the end of these tomatoes as it's rather tough on my legs and back - at least now i'm in better shape than i was a month ago so it's not quite the same. i can doooo eeettt!

 

[flowerbug]

20 quarts of tomatoes almost finished.

 

[flowerbug]

hmm, weather forecast being wrong and it is raining this morning so i probably won't mow today after all. color me heartbroken... a nap is calling me on speed dial...

 

[flowerbug]

what i thought was the last picking of tomatoes wasn't. since my sister arrived for her visit and wanted to move around she helped Mom pick tomatoes.

so that meant that last night instead of doing a smaller batch of canning we had enough tomatoes for another 15 quarts, plus now i have yet another round of tomatoes ripening on the counter to deal with (i thought we'd be done!). oh well, i'm fine with whatever happens but i'm thinking a lot of them will be given away or eaten fresh.

 

[flowerbug]

picked some dry beans and weeded as i was going along, it wasn't too bad but when i'm done picking beans at last from this garden i'll have to scrape and bury all the grass that is sprouting. it must have all blew in because it sure wasn't in there last year. not too many thistles sprouting so far. all things considered it is looking ok. it could be much much worse.

this morning the weather forecast had us as a slight chance of rain this afternoon but that changed by the time i got in from picking beans that we were probably going to get rain. still i don't count any of it until it hits the ground. then it did rain and not just once but enough to wet the ground and then it took a short break and another round and then a third round and perhaps another or two this evening. we'll see. whatever we've gotten i'm glad for it - everything is pretty dry out there other than the plants we transplanted or ones i wanted to make sure were getting some extra water.

it was a nice sunny day out there and i was glad i could get done what i did.

 

[Mini Horses]

Even small accomplishments bring big results and a great feeling! Congrats for the rain....