When every surface of you kitchen looks like this, it is time to can.The bag resting in the sink is full of tomatoes you cannot see. They are everywhere.

I need the quiet to focus on this task so I’ll be staying up late tonight. I collected twigs from the yard earlier and they are waiting by the stove. We had a tremendous storm last night and another this afternoon so the yard was littered with branches.

The girls are up with Billy hearing the Jungle Book before bed, and I have a book of my own and a cup of tea while I wait for the dishwasher to finish sanitizing the jars and the stove to heat up enough to boil the big pot of water. Not a bad night and in the morning I will have some room to make coffee.

State Fair tomorrow and the Horticulture Competition.