Tomorrow's Storms

 For once, I'm not complaining about bad weather predicted for tomorrow. I pray no one has tornadoes or hail or any serious bad weather and I certainly wasn't hoping for storms,  though I may have hoped for rain.

As I mentioned, we picked about 22 pounds of strawberries Saturday. Then we came home, Vince helped stem them and I chopped them ALL and made strawberry syrup, then canned 24 pints and 1 half pint of the syrup.

Then Sunday, also as I already mentioned, I spent hours getting the kitchen clean from that big canning session. 

I was looking so forward to spending all day today stitching (Monday) but Taco Salad was on the menu for today and I somehow overlooked buying lettuce when we were at the store last week so I told Vince I needed to run to Walmart to get lettuce. He needed some things. I needed a couple of other things so it wasn't as quick of a trip as I had hoped. Vince wanted to stop at one of the dollar stores and I said "Can we please just go home?" Yes. A one stop trip . . rarely happens but it did.

After lunch, I was happy to go down and start stitching. I sat down and . . fell asleep. I slept in the chair with the dogs for at least two hours.

The strawberry patch isn't open every day. Some days they're closed because they're all "picked out". Some days they're closed for ripening. They were closed today and were going to open 9 - 12 in the morning. Vince wanted to go back and get more and I do want to make strawberry rhubarb jam. Because we have to go to Nevada tomorrow for Cooper's class, I figured today I would pick rhubarb, get it washed and chopped. Then tomorrow after we pick the berries, I would come home, wash those, chop them and be ready to make the jam and get it canned when we get home about 6 p.m. I would also wash the jars, get the water in the canner so I don't have to do any of that tomorrow.

I really want to get the strawberry jam made because once rhubarb and strawberries are gone . . that's it for this year. But, I also have a "meet and greet" at a neighbor's home tomorrow at 1, then I have to leave for Nevada about 2:15 so that doesn't give me much time to get anything done.

When I woke up from my nap, a message popped up on my Facebook that they've cancelled the strawberry picking for tomorrow because of weather!! They will pick Wednesday during the day but I'll be with Debbie so Vince will go pick. How nice! I don't have to do the picking but I'll have lots of fresh berries to make the jam.