The Days Aren't Long Enough!

This morning as I was getting myself together, I realized summer is passing by at record speed and the days aren't long enough to get every thing done that I want to get done in a single day. This week, I have cleaned and threw away and straightened my kitchen. I cleaned cupboards and drawers and scrubbed floors. I guess you could call it my getting ready for fall.

Yesterday I went out to take care of the garden, and I thought maybe I would have about six ripe tomatoes. I picked tomatoes for thirty minutes so I knew the plans I had for yesterday were going to be put aside for making more spaghetti sauce.

After the cooking down and putting through the food mill I ended up with one huge pot of sauce.

 

When Peter came home for lunch he took bowl and dipped sliced Mozzarella cheese into fresh sauce. I love it when they make yummy sounds. It simmered and cooked down and I ended up with more jars of this lovely stuff.
I feel like I am getting ready for winter.

Two of my largest stock pots cooked down to just 7 jars.

Here is my pantry this morning.

Its dark in my pantry so I will use the picture with the flash. That is just part of it. I have the jam I have made at the other end.

I need to make more jam.

I did manage to make a peach pie yesterday. I went out to get the mail and I had a few ripe peaches so I picked enough for pie and made that while my spaghetti sauce was in the water bath canner. I don't like to leave it boiling on the stove so making a peach pie gave me something to do. Really it was because I knew if I sat down it would hurt too much to have to get up so I stayed on my feet.

 

I have been on a different kind of book read this summer. I had these books on hold at the library and they came in on Saturday. I would like to slow down a bit to bury my head in these books for a while.

They are The Stranger in the Woods, Pioneer Women: Voices From the Kansas Frontier, Hearts West: True Stories of Mail Order Brides on the Frontier, Women of the West, Pioneer Women The Lives of Women on the Frontier. Ron thinks I am wanting to get away and live on the prairie. Who knows, maybe I do.

Of course, still working on my rug. I did manage to get most of my unfinished rugs bound. I have one tiny one left. Life still manages to be life. On my list of things I wanted to get done is still getting my bed room painted. I just don't think that is going to happen this summer. August is around the corner so that means getting windows washed and my neglected flowerbeds ready for fall too. Its still over a hundred here every day. The game cam said one day out in the pasture it reached 134. It was in full sun but even at hundred and twenty that is still hot to be out in it and I am most of the day trying to keep my garden and my hens alive.

I just wanted to check in and show you the things going on. Its been a nice summer all in all. I hope yours has been nice too.

Thanks for stopping by and saying hello. Its always nice to know you are out there and having a nice summer  too.

~Kim~

“Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.”
― Gladys Taber