Tuesdays With Jo

Dear Mother Jaskey, 

It has been another delightful week in summer. This last week we went from the hot plus thirty days and nights above 20C to cooler evenings, crickets chirping and caragana seeds popping. I am always a little sentimental about fall.

One evening we had our neighbors, Rudi and Cindy Dueck and their four children, over for supper. I did my typical company meal which is grilled chicken (marinated in white sauce this time), baby potatoes with toppings (garden potatoes this time), corn, lettuce salad (I did the BLT one) and oreo dessert (I don't have a set company dessert 😅). I truly don't mean to have a company menu. Its just happened enough times that I tend to make fun of myself. 

I've canned 24 quarts and 32 pints of beans this last week. Do you think that will last us for a year? I hope so, as I have now lost interest and have given away the last picking. I used my pressure canner on my corn cooker on the back deck. That is some fast cooking! I can do two layers of pints in there, so 16 jars at a time. 

I am absolutely thrilled that your dear daughter Karen and her two dear daughters, Em and Trish, are about to arrive in the land of living skies! We are hosting a mini teachers prep here tomorrow and Trish is coming to attend. I shall immerse myself in much sisterly-ness.

Are you interested in the school cleaning evenings, the food prep, the shopping days for the aforementioned? I kind of think not. And so I shall close this epistle. 

Love, Jo

P.S. Wyatt has been asking for an Encyclopedia set to read.

P.P.S. Only 1.6 more weeks until Colby comes home.

P.P.P.S. I have been thinking a lot about Genevra. I imagine her with dark hair, blue eyes and a huge imagination at age two.