Wednesday, August 11, 2010

It's About Time!

So myself, just like all our gardens seem to be running a little behind and not producing much as we would like.  However after catching up on some blog posts this morning, because I am such a slacker, it seems like a few of us are finally getting tomatoes!  I am thrilled to say that yesterday was the first harvest worth more than a darn 'onsey twosey' picking:

I was able to can up 9 Qts of Stewed Tomato, 1 batch of sun-dried cherry tomato, 2 Qts of Green Beans and some more corn as well.  I took some "Stella-r" (wink, wink) advice and tried a little experiment with a recipe my mom grew up with called Harvard Beets.  It's basically a thickened pickled beet.  And I canned them up, gave them to dear ole Mom, and they really turned out wonderful!  Thank you Stella, for the encouragement!

And ya know too, I just wanted to give you guys some proof, that you can put lipstick on a Pig and you can clean up a Pig Pen:

We had a wedding this weekend...note the jeans and raccoon eyed suntan.  Ah, whatchya gonna do?  And like any good redneck, of course we had to stop on the way home to pick up a load.

Hope you all are having a great day!

11 comments:

  1. There you are, was wondering what you were up to. So you are getting some tomatoes. Hooray!! I hope blight stays away. I have heard of a truckers tan and a farmers tan, but we need a name for Pig Pens tan. Anyone?

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  2. Aren't you a cutie!! Sounds like you have been busy...Love his raccoon eyes tan...Jane, you're right, that tan deserves a name all its own!!

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  3. I'm so glad you're back...I was starting to have withdrawls...lol!!!

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  4. Haha! I had some relates that wore jeans to our wedding too. Those loggers, they wear their carharts everywhere! Oh, and their Romeos!!! :) At least they were a new pair of carharts... lol!

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  5. Have you ever noticed that at summer weddings everyone looks kinda like a flower? All sun tanned, decked out in bright colors and just all squeeky-clean looking? (Or is that just me?)

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  6. AH ya clean up so nice, lovely couple. ya would think me being a arm gal and outside all the time I would have a decent tan, but gosh all i gots is a farmers tan too. I am gonna have to find time to get some kinda tan before I go to Vegas next week.

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  7. Jane and MamaTea...maybe just a "Coon Tan"?
    Andrea...Funny Girl! Did you try the pie filling yet??
    Chels...one of my many motto's "Farm Hands Feel Better". Or at least that's what it says on my T-Shirt :)
    MamaPea...It's because we "Tan the Fat" :)
    Stella...you live out in the middle of no where -get naked! HA!!!

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  8. Hello there, this is my first time visiting your blog, and wow, what a nice tomato harvest you got there! Love the pictures of you two (what a nice couple you make!), and I love even more than you stopped to pick up a "load" on your way home from a wedding.

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  9. Well Hi, thyme2garden and welcome! Thank you for the comment and yes the load...that's how we roll! Always working, always doin' something!

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  10. Nice to see a photo of you, you guys look great! What a good commercial for GMC, too!

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  11. Erin, don't let that fool ya...I look like a hag 9 days out of the week ;) and we only dress up for "mandatory formations"! But thank you!!

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