Tomato Time.

On our way to the mountains we had dropped off one car to be serviced in Durham, so, we had to pick it up on the way home.  That called for us to spend the night as we could not make the last ferry that day.

We had kept sleeping mats so we could use the living room floor at Doug and Jill’s house which also gave us the opportunity for a visit there.

When we arrived our son, Doug, was busy canning tomatoes.  The neighbor has a big garden with lots of tomatoes, but she had a health issue that prevented her using them.  Doug and Jill were invited to pick all the tomatoes.

A whole world of tomatoes.

He was finishing that day’s canning batch and we got to watch and smell.  I am not sure how many they have done so far but this is not the first batch.  The finished quart jars are so pretty and later, as we were falling asleep, we could hear the lids popping as the jars cooled down.

After that we had pizza delivery, cat play, and visiting until bed time.  Early in the morning we headed back to Ocracoke.

Cat play time on the back porch.