Three bushels of tomatoes! I no sooner walked in the house from our trip than the phone rang and it was Mr. Vite saying that the tomatoes I'd ordered were ready....come pick them up!

I did...ball jars and strainer are in the dishwasher and after church tomorrow, I'll be making tomatoe juice for the rest of my life.

We loved 3 mo' Tenors.....they were incredible...did opera, soul, blues, gospel..

Glad to be home....hugs for the room.

What's on your plate?

Welcome Home Alffe!!!! I'm glad you guys enjoyed your trip!!!!!!
I've been shredding my FILS junk mail most of the day... Rick and
I went over ther the other night and brought home 2 big paper sacks
full of begging letters and sweepstakes stuff Hes on EVERYBODIES
list as he gets suckered into sending 5 bucks here and 10 bucks there, then
they sell his name to all the ohters. It really makes me angry that they
target the older people..... ANYWAY my BIL is coming for a visit next
week. He called this evening and hes in Colorado right now. He'll be here
late tomorrow. He'll stay with my FIL but eat over here LOL.....

Welcome back! I'm glad you had such a good time. My visit with you and Mr. Alffe is still pleasantly fresh in my mind.

I had a wonderful time with daughter and granddoody this weekend. It is SO nice to finally hear him call me gramma, loud and clear.

Ok...UNCLE said my back. 21 jars and barely made a dent in it! Don't you just love the little click the jar lids make while they are cooling? (it's takes very little to tickle me these days!)

Tomorrow is another day (that never made sense to me when my tired mother used to say it..*grin) I also need to get thank you's in the mail, and someones bathing suit!

Which reminds me....bet the hot tub would feel real good on this back of mine.

Goofy I'm afraid you are overdoing it.....

BJ....just sending hugs along with some prayers.

Doody...it's been too long since you posted pictures of that little man!!

My BIL made it in yesterday evening.... It was really good to see him
I'm going to try and get to the "Y" tonight and get started back in my
water aerobics, I dont think i'll be able to wear the flotation belt, but
i'm sure i'll be ok without it.,.,.. (gulp)

(((goofy))) You don't swim either? I dog paddle.

Finally finished the tomato juice and found a lovely sounding recipe for canning green beans...with rosemary and lemon peel. Only made three jars of that.

And....drum roll............ I tried to pickle some red chard! With garlic and hot pepper flakes. We shall see in six weeks what we have done.

I also wrote to Bon Appetit Mag. and begged them to get the corn soup recipe from Bouchon Bakery.

Off now to the post office to mail some stuff....it's impossible to mail flatbread without breaking it!! I keep telling myself...so what?? You break it to eat it.....~sigh

Very interesting article in this mornings paper about the elderly being at the highest risk for suicide. Will post it later.