The last harvest

Today I picked the last of the tomatoes.

It's supposed to get cold tomorrow and our tomato plants are looking a bit worse for the wear

I forgot to take a picture of my counter covered in beautiful 

(ok, maybe they weren't beautiful...they were a bit bedraggled) 

red tomatoes

But here are some of them as they are simmering on the stove

And here is the food mill that I am using to remove the seeds and peels and reveal the gorgeous tomato juice

And here is my HUGE pot of tomato juice.

I also have quite a bit of tomato juice on the counter, the floor and the front of my off white sweatshirt.

oops.

I will be using this sauce to make homemade sloppy joe sauce.

We really like sloppy joes over here so I figured I would can a bunch of homemade sauce...

I am pretty excited about it.

I bet it will taste amazing!

I will let you know.