Abundance!

The first freeze will be here soon, probably this week or the next, so we are at the end of our wonderful tomato and cantaloupe crops. It is astounding how much two little tomato plants, and one tiny cantaloupe plant have produced; it really is a miracle. I am afraid, however, that all the fruit won't make it to maturity. We have given tomatoes to Emily (whose poor plant on her front porch produced only one little tomato), we sent cantaloupe and tomatoes to Texas with Debby, have given cantaloupe to Phillip and Meags, and have eaten gobs of tomatoes, but we still are overflowing with good stuff.

Ann, who had just dried a box of nectarines, suggested drying tomatoes. We borrowed Millie's dryer and it worked a charm. So we will have some good dried-tomato pasta dishes this winter.

I hope these ripen before they freeze

The tomato bushes that ate Manhattan!

The guys on the left got dried

Dryer courtesy of Millie

Started at 9:00 A.M., they were finally
finished at 4:00 in the morning

Packed in olive oil for the winter

By the way, Suzi and Ken Heinz and family were in town this weekend. They are doing school tours with Sage, Suzi's niece who lives with her. We had a nice visit with them over dinner at P712.

Sage, Ken, McKenna, Suzi, DT, and Kris

That's all for now.

OXO

D.