Squeezo !!!

This is Dan's latest addition to the farm...  The Squeezo strainer...

We've been inundated with veggies and trying to find ways to preserve them.  Apparently, the Squeezo has been around for decades and is still made in the US.  He found this one on eBay and I have to admit, this thing is pretty darn cool.  Quarter your tomatoes, toss them in, poke them down and turn the crank and you have tomato puree in minutes.  Today we strained about 3 dozen tomatoes and I made homemade pasta sauce and chili - both were super sweet from the fresh tomatoes.  We also have a berry and pumpkin screen.  Tomorrow we're going to roast pumpkins and make pumpkin puree.

4th of July

This was the first year we got fireworks to celebrate 4th of July with the kids.  They didn't love the loud ones, but overall they had lots of fun.  We stretched it out over several days.

I can't remember what were were shooting off that required sunglasses.  And for the record, I tried to get Evie to stop sitting like a rag doll on the gravel, but she rarely listens to reason.

Evie was really getting into the snapping things, although she only made a few snap...

Samuel liked these too.  When Evie's wouldn't "snap" she'd go looking for them to try again...

On night #2 we shot off some bigger fireworks...

And of course sparklers.  Samuel did pretty well, but it was a little nerve wracking watching Evie with hers...