what the?????

i showed you in my last post how i have been canning the tomatoes out of my neighbor's garden.  they are away and i have been picking the ripe vegetables out of their garden so they don't rot.  i showed the beautiful bounty i reaped 

and what i did with it for them...

curtis and don are very (friendly) competitive when it comes to their gardens. they start them from seeds in early spring and every year, there is a competition to see who can grow the biggest pumpkins.  we plant mostly the same kinds of  tomato plants....lots of heirloom tomatoes and big red, juicy ones.

well, i picked again from curtis's garden on saturday morning and got
this....

don picked the tomatoes from our garden saturday morning and got
this....

huh???????
looks like we aren't even in the running this year!!!
:)

oh, yes i "can".....

our fabulous neighbors and friends, curt and laura

left for utah last week to drop off their daughter

at byu for her first year in college.  since they will be gone for 10 days, we are in charge of looking after their garden.  the day before they left, they had picked a huge bowl full of tomatoes, banana peppers and jalapeno peppers.  since they would probably go bad before they came back, 

they were entrusted to me....
hmmmmm....what to do with the first real bounty of summer?.....
salsa, of course!

so i canned 12 pints of it.....
a few days ago, i hit up their garden again and came home with this.

see that really big one at the top, the one that is split in two?   it put up a valiant fight to prevent me from picking it.....but i won.

there weren't enough peppers to make more salsa, so i just canned the tomatoes.....
6 quarts of garden gold.....

now, if only our garden will start producing tomatoes like these......
i will be checking their garden later today to see if there is anymore to pick....
and to can!!!
and just because they are so cute, here are the rest of the kids

hope you have a great weekend.....