~to homeschool or not? ~
~~ barney figures it out ~~

1:11 p.m.

Forced to take a break while the boys are on the phone with their dad. Can’t run the blender (Farmbeau made a batch of tomato soup this morning and I want to puree it before freezing it) because Don’s at the kitchen table with the phone. While he talked, I picked through and washed a couple sinksful of ripe tomatoes. They wait now for me to chop and bag them.

I don’t plan to do many more. There are already 24 gallons of tomatoes tucked away in deep freezes, ready to make salsa and spaghetti sauce in the year to come. I’m going to freeze smaller quantities next, and perhaps make some tomato paste. The pigs are welcome to the rest of the crop if no one else lays claim to it.

I’m hoping to get out for wood with Farmbeau this afternoon. He went next door for a borscht lunch, and was going to get the chainsaw and stuff ready for a foray into the bush. We were all invited to lunch, but I wanted to get the kitchen cleaned up and a few things done before we go for a load of wood.