Finally Got Him!

I have been trying to get this guys picture for over a year and I finally did it! Saw him feeding on my flowers while I was grinding the tomatoes. They sure are hungry creatures. I fill up my feeder about twice a week now, plus they have all the flowers to go to.

Saucing tomatoes

I took the day off today to make tomato sauce and Carl came over to help. His idea of helping was picking 3 more buckets while I cleaned the 4 buckets Chet had already picked! He did also cut them all up for me. I now have a turkey roaster full of sauce that is cooling, my three large pots are on the stove with more simmering, and I still have more to go. Oh, and those three buckets of tomatoes Carl picked? They are sitting on the front porch waiting their turn.

A Good Investment

Hurricane Ike made it's way through Ohio Sunday afternoon and night. We didn't get much rain, but the wind really blew. Chet and I spent the evening on the porch listening to it howl - and listening to trees crack. There wasn't much else we could do because the lights went out about 6:45pm. Fortunately after we moved here we bought this little baby.

Chet charged her up and I was able clean up from dinner. When we went to bed, we turned it off. Got up a little early Monday morning so we could charge it up again to get the water hot for our showers. I didn't expect to have to go through the process again when I got home from work - but the lights were still out. In fact, it wasn't until I got home on Tuesday that I discovered that the electric had come back on around four - which was a surprise because OH Edison had said that our area would be back on by Sunday evening. This is the longest we've ever had to use the generator - boy am I glad we have it!