Diced tomatoes in five pint jars and a half-pint this morning - if I manage to can the equivalent of a bucket of tomatoes a day today and tomorrow then this weekend I can probably get caught up and also freeze a lot of the peppers. It's a race right now that the fruit is winning. I watered this morning and saw quite a few tomatoes ready and three squash - I'll pick at noon and then probably after dinner. And this is a puny garden by most standards!

Susie and her friend were over for dinner last night - the friend seemed inclined to be silent and play with her phone for stretches of time, so as I cooked I exerted myself to interview her, pull out bits of information to build a conversation on and by the time dinner was on the table she was on a roll, talking about the parks and lakes and stately mansions in upstate New York and the Thousand Islands and into Vermont. She was one tough nut, but came up with some interesting stuff. I only told one story in the middle of all of that, then turned it back to the two of them.

Kat, my fridge is going between stuffed full and mostly empty these days - ripe fruit stacked and lined up and in bowls, then the canning. I need to remember that I have a second small fridge in the sun room - I could move my regular food over there and just do the canning stuff in the kitchen fridge.

SRS