Coffee anyone ?

[Baymule]

I took seven 1 gallon bags of frozen tomatoes out to cook down. Got 2 pots simmering, one is thick sauce, think I’ll make more BBQ sauce, the other is 2 bags of peeled and deseeded tomatoes that I’ll make into chunky salsa. Got half the stuff out of the bedroom.

 

[Ridgetop]

If you have freezer space, save the tomatoes to can in the winter when it is cold out. More fun standing over a hot stove in the winter!

If I want anything out of the garden I will have to pick tiny green golf ball size tomatoes and either pickle them or make green tomato jam. Problem is we don't need more jam! I guess it will be dilled green tomatoes. I wonder if I could find a recipe for a green tomato pie filling . . . . ?

 

[Baymule]

I am tired. I got 7 pints BBQ sauce and 6 pints of chunky salsa. Going to watch the news, hoping for some rain from the hurricane. Laura is supposed to be a Cat 3 when it makes landfall by 1:00 AM Thursday. Evacuations along the coast are happening now.

@Ridgetop I can’t wait until winter to process the tomatoes. We took pigs to slaughter yesterday and I will need the freezer room.

 

[Ridgetop]

Supposed to be Cat 1 when it reaches Texarkana. Stay safe! Bay - You need another freezer!

 

[Baymule]

The News said that we will get 3-5" of rain and winds up to 75 MPH. So it won't be too bad. Power may be off if trees get blown down. We'll see.

Friends of ours in Livingston are sheltering 2 people they know, one lives on a boat in Galveston, he was made to evacuate. The other one lives in a travel trailer in Crystal Beach, Hurricane Ike totally flattened everything there about 8 years ago, so he took his RV to high ground and went to Livingston. They just got Domino's pizza, they have a generator and all is well. LOL

 

[Bruce]

Power may be off if trees get blown down.

Hopefully that won't happen.
I apparently "dodged" one today. Had the radio on coming back from MA and heard that I/91 N was closed around exit 7 due to a downed tree. I had been through there about 1/2 hour before the radio info was put out. IIRC, that was where the rain was so hard you could barely see the road with wipers on high. Where is an overpass when you need one? Anyone coming upon a tree across both lanes in that rain likely wouldn't have been able to stop by the time they saw it.Hopefully the rain slowed substantially before the tree fell.

 

[farmerjan]

Trees on an interstate is a real bad deal. Hope you are right and the rain slowed so people could see it before they hit it.
There are going to be some major problems here in the next few years with trees coming down. We have/HAD alot of Ash trees... nice treees. The emerald ash borer is causing some major problems, they are dying off and there are hundreds of dead and dying ash right in this area. Son said that next year they are going to start having to take down the ones that are in the center sections of our divided main roads.... like route 11... because they are going to start falling as the root systems die off from no leaves feeding them.... and there are more than you can count just along the sides of the back roads everywhere. Everyone I know that had any timber were cutting them as fast as they could to salvage something from them before they completely died off. I understand that VaTech is studying it and trying to figure out why some of the trees die on one side but have seemed to been able to hang on so far....
Kinda like the Chestnut blight, and the Dutch elm disease.... this borer is really doing a number.

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. We woke up at 4 AM. DH is already back asleep in his recliner. LOL He wakes up, makes the coffee, drinks half a cup and is soon snoring. We have an exterminator coming this morning. We have ants in the house. I hate them, BJ goes on ant killing patrol, smushing the little pests. This morning he found a scorpion in the kitchen sink. This happens when it is scorching hot and dry as it gets close to fall. I guess the ants are stocking up for the winter, but they durn sure can go somewhere else.

 

[promiseacres]

Thanks Baymule
Need to start picking and canning tomatoes. And peppers, will makes salsa and freeze the extras. I might try dehydrating some tomatoes too.
School then go to a friend's place to play in the river, high is 91° so we'll see what I get done with those tomatoes.
My tooth is doing ok. Hoping the crown does ok, it's a temporary and I will get a permanent one next month as long as I have no problems.

 

[Baymule]

I've been on SS, TEG and BYH, guess it's time to get dressed, do chores and greet the day. It's been nice, being lazy this morning.