My Sweet Valentine / I heart faces Photo Challenge

    I remember when I was young and all the kids would hand out valentine’s cards and there was always one boy that I’d hope would give me a special card. Those days are long gone.

     Sometimes when I look at my daughter I see myself at her age. When life was simple and getting old was just a game I played. I wish she could forever stay young and forever be my little Valentine!

This week’s I Heart Faces photo challenge is “hearts”, I decided to enter my sweet valentine.

Green Tomatoes turn Red

     Today I remembered I had stored some green tomatoes in a brown paper bag to ripen. I decided to take a look and guess what I found? Lots of red tomatoes. It worked! The night before our first frost in October Emma and I went outside and picked the green ones in the dark with a flashlight. I explained to hear my mom had told me they would slowly ripen if we stored them in a paper bag. We didn’t want to waste the green ones.

    There just weren’t enough to justify getting out all my canning supplies so I decide to make salsa and freeze it. Much, much easier! And that I did. I ended up with five bags of salsa and one bag of juice. I figured I can use the juice in tomato soup or in my spaghetti. I am already looking forward to planting more tomato plants next year!