Tomatoes

Katie and I have spent the past 2 Sundays canning tomatoes.  It seems that when you put away apples or peaches or other fruits, you can half a dozen pints at most.  But tomatoes are a basic part of the diet, at least for us.  We canned 1 bushel each Sunday.

It makes for lotsa good food, but it's more than that.  We spent a lot of time together-me blanching and peeling and her cutting the tomatoes  and putting them in the jars that she had boiled.  We took breaks while some were boiling for an hour and half and others were cooking in the pressure canner.  It's one of those things that brings you a little closer together.  You sometimes need those moments when you've been married for more than 30 years.

We'll get back to the travelogue tomorrow.