PIcture of the day #261

I have this cute grandson that comes in the house and says Grandma  you have a cucumber out there that is as long as my arm...we today I  found that he was almost right.  So after his game we measured it.  It's as long as his forearm...isn't he so cute!  I love the smile!    Love the glasses on top of the hat too!

 Thing 3 said can I try?  Thing 1 cracks me up!

 Looks pretty big!

 It really is almost as long as her whole arm!!

 Look Grandma!!

 And a smile from Thing 1 too!!!

How can you not love these two???

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!!