Lots of Things

With the heat and drought, there is not a lot going in the garden.  And what is going, is going crazy!  The jalapeno plants are loaded, but of course the tomatoes are not.  The okra is rearing is prickly head as well.  I picked a five gallon bucket of it today.  Some of it I was cooking up for lunch when the power failed.  I had to improvise at that point.  Good thing we like to camp.
Tomorrow I will turn the jalapenos into salsa!  Yes, it is supposed to be very cool over the next few days, so I can open the windows and turn on the canners.  Hopefully it will have rained and cut down the dust.  Last week I smoked a few for chipotles.  Jeff likes them so, I guess they turned out well.

With all the busy of Elijah's school work and mine (finally taking an AC online class!), I made time to help out Mrs. T. by showing the sophomores how to make marshmallows.  It was a lot of fun.  The mess may be the best part of the fun.