How I love my days off!!! Today was sweet, ice cream for
lunch (yes, really) and I accomplished a lot, even though there is laundry
still waiting in the washer and dryer.
Our sweet kitty, Belle, who is 14 yrs old and recently lost
an eye, had her surgical staples removed today and is doing very well. She’s
got her old spunk back.
(This is Belle before a foxtail from the grass ulcerated one of her eyes.)
I went visiting teaching, was able to do a bit of Family
History work, indexed two batches of Italian Matrimonio records, found some
time to write and my vasculitis isn’t getting the better of me. I’m on a roll!!
Yay! I wish every day could go so well.
Yesterday JoDee and I peeled tons of home grown yummy ripe
tomatoes and made salsa. I’ve been making this recipe for cooked salsa and home
canning it for years. If you do it properly there is nothing to worry about
safety- wise. While the salsa simmered we ran out to have lunch and pop into a
few stores. When I am with JoDee and my sweet little1 ½ yr old granddaughter time really flies. We could and do
spent hours together and it is a real joy in my life to have them as family.
Some of our favorite stores are Ulta, Kohls, Target, any and
all fabric and craft shops, various eateries, Barnes and Noble, and the
ubiquitous, (but not necessarily a favorite) Wally World (aka Wal-mart).
Our salsa needed a little spicing up after our taste test
when we returned home so I added some chopped jalapeno peppers. That did the
trick and it now has a nice after-bite to it!! The down side of peeling tons of deliciously ripe tomatoes
and making the salsa is…at the end of the day you only wind up with 4 teeny
little pint jars of the stuff. Oh well, it’s still worth making though. If you
are interested in the recipe please send me a comment, because I don’t know if
there are many people out there that home can anymore and I am feeling too lazy
to post it right now. I use a steamer/water bath kettle that I have had for
about 25 yrs. It has served us well and preserved many a fruit, pickle, and
jelly for us in the past.
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| Our homemade salsa |
Hubby made some wonderful peach jam a few weeks ago, as we
were up to our ears in delectable peaches from the silly scraggly peach tree in
the yard. That little tree gets crowded out by the cottonwoods and pines in the
back but every year it still produces tons, I mean tons, of lovely peaches.
There are always too many for us to eat by ourselves so we share, and make jam!
Thank you very much little peach tree!!
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