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My father’s birthday

If my father was still alive he’d be 104 today. What a great person. He taught me how to enjoy watching and then they play baseball, taking me to my first baseball game at Briggs Stadium, which was later called Tiger Stadium around 70 years ago. He taught me how to throw, catch and kick…

Our walk yesterday

Somehow we managed to get out for a nice walk before the storms came yesterday. We always check on the garden before going. That’s when we found a nice insect on the green bean supports. This is a freshly emerged dog-day cicada. These nice insects are annual, unlike many other cicadas. Now it was time…

Tomato sauce

Now that we’ve had our first major picking of tomatoes it’s time to make and can tomato sauce. What we make is a thickened sauce with only tomatoes. That way when we go to use them we can alter the sauce as necessary. So, how many quarts did we get from 23 pounds of roma…

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