On Monday morning I had no energy and outside of getting a post up, I didn’t get anything else done.
On Tuesday I was doing much better and got the kitchen cleaned up with my brother’s help, laundry going, a shower, and got started getting ready to make more spaghetti sauce.
About ¾ of the tomatoes on the windowsill were ripe enough and I was processing them when my helper friend arrived at 9:30AM. He got some chores done and a couple errands.
He took over processing the tomatoes when he finished and I moved onto chopping peppers, onions and garlic. We finished getting it all into the roaster on the porch just before he had to go.
I was very tired and my foot and legs were hurting, so outside of keeping the laundry going, I didn’t do much else besides watching Big Bang Theory until bedtime.
It finally start raining during the night and is to rain all day Wednesday and Thursday. We really need it!
I turned the sauce down before bed. But I was up in the night and had to turn it to keep warm around 1AM. I got the canner started as soon as I got up.
I was using the medium canner as it was just a single double bath, not like the 2X double batch last time.
I got the sauce run through the blender and reheating while I waited for the canner and the lids to do their 10 minute stint in boiling water.
They processed for 45 minutes and I was able to sit down to rest.
I ended up with 4 quarts and 1 pint. I have an enormous mess in the kitchen to clean up and the laundry to fold and put away. That ought to finish me off after a bad night Tuesday night.
Thursday I plan to start the sauerkraut when my helper friend gets here at noon. I hope to do as many jars as I have weights for. We’ll start with the split heads first.