Tomaotes tomatoes tomatoes....

Monday morning Jeff went up to his sister's to help her with some yard work. He cleared off her garden and mowed her lawn (mowing his new cell phone in the process!) He came home with 7, yes, 7 grocery bags of tomatoes, a bag of green beans, bag of potatoes, a few peppers, a zucchini, a couple of onions and 1 pathetic sweet potatoe. Tuesday after I got out of work we cleaned, chopped and cooked the tomatoes...3 big soup pots of sauce! Last night we proccessed canned 27 pints of tomaotes...sauce, with green beans and as a soup stock. I don't care if I ever see another tomatoe... until next year! Next in the pressure canner will be apples...sauce and pie filling. Somewhere along the way we've got to pick the last of our purple beans and peppers...hopefully some will be hot! ...and dig up our sweet potatoes. Jeff wants to get some pears to dehydrate and I'd like to can some. And I'd like to do some peppers and onions together, too. Jeff dehydrated some of the green beans he brought home and has another grocery bag of tomatoes lined up for the dehydrator. I guess you can say we're getting our money's worth out of the dehydrator and big pressure canner. We were disappointed that we didn't get that much from our garden...all the work he put in to it...but because of having our garden we were ended up with the fruit from Peter's and from Sherry's gardens.