Tomatoes, Pears, corn, and Coco Puff Balls

Well we had another busy Saturday!!  But we got lots done!  First we went to Trip's game.  Then we went grocery shopping.  Then home to bake 10 lbs of potatoes for a stake activity tonight.  After they were int he oven we got started canning more tomatoes.  In the interest of time, Tim found a recipe for a Tomato Soup Base, so we got to work skinning the tomatoes and blending them and pressure cooking them.  Next we started on the pears...I had to run the potatoes over to the church right after we started the pears, then came home and spent the next couple of hours on pears.  Here is the first couple of jars.

 The pears cooking for 4 minutes in their juice

 Some of our Tomato Soup Base...you add cream and a few other things and get some yummy soup.

 More pears cooking...

 The pears ready to wash!

 Some of the canning jars...of course this is the last of them ...the rest are already used or in the....

 Dishwasher.

 After the pears we done except for few left to pressure cook, I went to pick corn...Ok it was a scary experience.  I was a little worried about earwigs but nothing bad...but the rows were close together and I just finished reading Lovely Bones and my girls talked about books and scared me, anyway I got really freaked out.  So this is all I picked and made Tim go out!

 Now as you can see, my corn field is not that bad...but I couldn't do anymore.  It looks like I was still shaking when I took the pictures!!

 I did have to take a picture of the sunset.

 Tim still picking...not at all scared...I was still freaked out just taking pictures...in fact I told the girls I don't know if I can ever go in the corn maze again!!!  ;o)

 While some of the pears were still pressure cooking we made some Peanut Butter Coco Puff Balls for Tim's YM tomorrow.

 And I still have school work and Scriptures to do before bed!!!  Not to mention BLOG!

 Here is our end product....well here is the 16 tomatoes soup and most of the pears.

  A fun view from above!

 The above picture of the ones still in the kitchen...

 A real view!

 And yes there is still 6 in the pressure cooker as I'm typing this out!!!

So it was just another crazy Saturday in our wonderful life's!!

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Tabitha with her peaches and pears...she is pretty excited about it!

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Well we didn't have enough fun making salsa etc...so now we got us some peaches and pears!!

 Now don't worry...there is not near what we wanted....

 And we are after all sharing these with the kids!!!

Yum,yum,yum!!!

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Ok this is Wednesday picture of the day...I was too tired yesterday to post it!  This was the moon and the clouds in the morning when I was headed into work!  It was really pretty.

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Ok when I took this picture I really saw a head with the mouth opened...it is still kinda there...it's an amimal or monster head.  Can you see it?

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Just a  fun little pepper mill!

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 We start them young...

 Let me get a little closer grandpa...so I can see what you are doing.

 Closer please....

 Ok so I hold this thing and .....

 ....stir it??  Are you sure I can't just dive in and eat it??

Their finished dish...Beef Burgundy.  It was a hit with everyone but Me and Caleb!!

Sorry .....had to post it..

Ok after I got home from the dance I wanted to see if I could catch the color in the moon. But it was half hidden by clouds or smoke...who knows... blow it up it's pretty cool
This is a normal picture of the moon but came out really small. Maybe one reason is I didn't turn on the porch light and didn't think about the sprinklers being on and yes I got blasted a couple of times!! Ughhhhhh ha,ha,ha!

Fall Ball

It's that time already!! Ha,ha,ha! Trip is back at it again!

He scored twice today!

His team has a very cute bat girl....seems the boys decided she was going to do it!

They also had a cute ump!!

Of course they have the best cutest coach around town!!

The crazy bat girl

Up to bat!

Listening to the coach!

And he swings!!

Bat girl doing her job!I'm pretty sure these belong to my grandson...it was a great picture could have been picture of the day if I hadn't stumble across the other one. Look at post before this if you haven't already!

Coach, Trip and Grandpa way on the right!

Can't forget the cute score keeper!

Pitching time!

And again.

Back to our places after a little pow- wow with coach, catcher and pitcher!

Bat girl!!
It was a great game, with the braves winning 11-1. They even had a great double play!