Once upon a time, the arrival of fall* was heralded by the imminence of school. These days, I know fall is coming when we start to get the full onslaught of ripe tomatoes.
And so it begins once again: the tomato processing cycle:
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| Son2 used to have to kneel on a stool to reach the strainer; now he towers over it. |
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| The juice cooking down into sauce. |
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| One batch done; the other still in the steam-canner. |
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| Beauties. |
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| Then, there are the smaller tomatoes...cherry, grape...that we dehydrate. |
Exhausting work but worth it come winter.
* meteorological fall which starts September 1st
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~ Douglas Adams
