Weekend Snapshots

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I found I had to send the men of the house out again, as I am still painting! Although I’m not exactly painting a mansion, it takes a while to get things finished when you only have 2 partial days a week to work. I won’t bore you with more photos of paint cans and brushes this week. However, I did manage to get a few domestic-y duties in, such as:

Roasting tomatoes. Organic Roma tomatoes were cheap this week. At least I think they were cheap. I don’t comparison shop, I just buy all my groceries at our food coop, which is cheap. I also don’t “put up” a lot of summer produce since we have no freezer or cabinet space to spare, but as I don’t buy canned tomatoes I decided to freeze just a few jars. You can see my homegrown tomatoes in the background, which I brought home from…

… my community garden plot. I don’t know what happened, but I didn’t have a lot of luck this year. Perhaps the heat wave had something to do with it… Some of my late planted mustard greens are doing well, though.

I also brought home some herbs from my plot, which I used to make delicious mint ice tea and homemade beef bone broth. Incidentally, I am now convinced that my broth is some sort of miracle elixir as when hubby came down with a nasty cold I told him to have a bowl of broth, and the very next day he was cured! Of course, maybe it was just a 24 hour thing… but still!

What have you been doing?