Domestic Diva?

I just had to share the fruit of my 2 full days of labor~ 25 pints of salsa and 17 pints of V8 juice, oh, and one tired girl with a VERY messy house!

Derrick called me last Thursday and asked me if I wanted some tomatoes? Sure 3 or 4 would be great. Well, he came home with 2 1/2 flats of tomateos, a bunch of jalepenos, a few peaches, a weird cactus thing I've never seen, and some other random things. Oh yea, how could I forget the NINE wedges of cotija cheese! How many of you have even heard of that? Well, not me...what am I going to do with that? All this abundance of food came from a desiel wreck that Derrick's cousin went on a wrecker call to, and they just throw/give away everything.

So, I really had some canning to do. I did salsa all day Monday and V8 today. Even though I am SUPER tired, I am also very proud of myself. I usually only can with my mom or my sister, and I've never done either of the things I did this time before. My sister did come help for a bit yesterday, but for the most part, I did it all by myself! The only major trauma was when Carlie touched the jalepenos I was cutting and then imediately rubbed her eyes, I felt so bad for her, I can't imagine how bad that hurt!

I don't know what it is about bottles lined up on the counter cooling, but what a good feeling. And the most wonderfull sound to me right now, is all those random little pops of sealing bottles (so far, they all have sealed!). YEA!