Last weekend Alice went down to State Farmers Market to check out what fresh veggies were in. She was mightily impressed with quality and value. We got out our Pressure Canner, asked Mama Glenda to bring down hers, and we washed quart and pint jars. Then Tuesday I bought the produce. The corn and tomatoes were the best value at $8 a box. So far we have about 3 dozen quarts of Vegetable Soup and twice that in Tomato Soup! Alice is using Mama Lucy's recipe for both. Because it is just the two of us now, she is putting up some in pints, which we normally use just for fruits and jams. We figure they'd be just right for a weekend trip to the beach, or to let Catherine and Stewart take to school.
Generally, we often wait for the dad-blamed hottest week summer to do things like this. This week wasn't too bad, but as luck would have it, our main AC unit went out Wednesday afternoon!
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