Tomato Season

With a capital 'T'.

This is the second year I've made tomato sauce. This time I didn't skin the fruit or simmer it for long hours on the stove, watching it and stirring it at regular intervals. I chopped 20 lb of tomatoes and put them in a large crock pot with chopped onion, celery and crushed herbs and simmered it for 12 hours. Then I pureed it right in the crock pot with an immersion blender. Wow, was that easy compared to last year!

Birthday Bouquet

The bouquet came from my brother. I LOVE how well it coordinates with my September wall hanging.

Family Birthday BBQ

Hollin and I played cat's cradle.

Auntie Kim read Thomas and Friends to Evan.

The brothers talked WOW, a language only they understand.

The Roberts women - and Evan photobombing. :)

Homemade V-8 Juice

I've waited all season for these beefsteak tomatoes. We've been enjoying them in ones and twos for a few weeks now, but I finally got a good harvest this weekend, almost 20 lbs. I also harvested parsley and chard for the V-8.

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Includes: tomatoes*, beets, carrots*, chard*, parsley*, onions*, celery*, and garlic*. * Organic or homegrown.

It took some doing, but I decided that was because I had a relatively low-powered Waring Juicer. If I do it again next year, I'll need a better juicer.

Wonky Stars

The quilt guild asked for doll quilts, so I finished another One Patch and donated it.

I didn't know it was a challenge and there were prizes. Imagine my surprise when I won first place! My prize was 12 Wonky Star blocks.

Not all of them are my favorite color combinations, but I can make a child's community quilt with nine blocks.

Thimbleberry Creek Walk

DS1 and family came to visit this weekend and we had a pleasant walk in the redwoods along Thimbleberry Creek.

 

 

The wind up.

The follow through.

More rocks please, Grandpa.