Last Thursday I pulled out the old
tomato grinder. It's actually called a Victorio Strainer. It's great
because you don't even have to take the skins off of tomatoes before
running them through. All I have to do is cut them in chunks small
enough to fit and send them through to make sauce. It removes all the
seeds and the skins and shoots them into a bowl and sends the good
stuff into another bowl or pot.
Then all I have to do is put the
sauce in a pot and slowly cook the extra water off until I have a
nice thick sauce. I added some chopped basil, chopped parsley and
some finely chopped onion and garlic this year. That's where I
stopped.
In years past I've added more, but
decided it would be a more versatile tomato sauce if I stopped there.
Any other things I like to add for different things can be added when
I use it.
Friday I spent the day grinding up
tomatoes and simmering the sauce. I then canned the sauce in pints
this year. It just doesn't make sense to can it in quarts here
anymore. Heck it's usually just me that I'm cooking for and so often
any extra goes to waste. If I do need more I can just open up more
than on pint.
While it was mostly rainy on
Saturday I began working on the dining room. I figure that since it's
just me and I never use the dining room as anything more than a catch
all junk room, I might as well turn it into a sports room. One neat
place where I can keep my rifles, shot guns, bow and arrows, all the
fishing poles and all the gun and fishing gear I've amassed over the
years.
I have about all the guns and
poles I'll ever need along with a few I don't need but will keep
because they were gifts or are just filled with great memories, so I
can build glass faced cases which will display them on the walls and
keep them easy to get at when I need to use them. That will keep the
dust off of them so I don't have to spend so much time cleaning them
when I want to use them!
I'm also intending to build in
some shelves and drawers to keep all the accessories in a neater
order and make them easier to find when I need them.
Heck I may go and let the kid in
me come out and hang some fake fish and birds from the ceiling...
Well I had intended to wait until
winter to start this project, but when having so many rainy days
lately I might as well get started now.
It keeps me busy and keeps me out
of trouble.
So I have two big winter projects
planned now. My sports room and I'm planning to turn one of the
unused bedrooms into a really huge walk in closet. Wonder if that'll
keep me busy over the long lonely winter...
While working my mind began to
think about me being alone. I came up with just one more reason.
Seems that just maybe I've spent
so many years being hurt and learning to block my feelings or ignore
them, that when I want to have feelings I can't.
I just can't fully feel them or
express them...
When it comes to more than just
friendship I guess I just shut down.
Now I've never pondered this kind
of a problem before. Heck I don't even know where to begin to find a
solution. But quite possibly I'm just not meant to find a solution
for it. I can't help but think that the best for me would be to get
back to where I was, being quite content with being alone and just
stay there.
I may not have the beautiful
flower gardens like I see other places but I have some. I may not be
able to grow the fantastic herb gardens I see other places, but I can
buy herbs. Herbs just don't seem to like me. I plant them, they come
up, they look good and then they just die away...
Guess it just takes more time and
work than I can give them. But when other work needs done what can I
do...
Right now I just want to get back
to laughing and smiling and enjoying life as I was before.
Heck I don't need a partner, I
just want. So I have to not be wanting that.
Shouldn't be to hard a job, should
it?
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