I’ve been out of town for the Nebraska Book Festival in Lincoln and tomorrow I leave for the Nebraska State Fair, so I’m spending my time trying to catch up all the caning and freezing I need to do to preserve my garden produce. I now have 60 pints of tomatoes and the pasta tomatoes are just beginning to ripen. I have six gallons of green beans frozen and all the lovely pumpkins I expected to use for jack-o-lanterns will have to be processed and used because the bugs got to them before they even got ripe. I’m hoping the homeless shelter can use them because I’ve already canned all the pumpkin and squash my son and daughter-in-law and I can use. Any more green beans will probably go to the shelter too.