Where have I been?

For those of you who are following...you may have noticed that since I told you I was starting my local food month I have been incommunicado! Well, there's a reason for that. Barbara Kingsolver was right when she spoke about every free moment being spent canning/freezing/preserving. I have been up to 11:30 every night just trying to preserve the summer's harvest. On Sunday evening alone (following my sister-in-law's fabulous wedding weekend), my husband and I froze and canned two bushels of peaches, made and froze 6 bags of basil pesto (minus the pine nuts since they aren't local), made and froze three pans of roasted vegetable lasagna, blanched and froze four bags of shelled lima and other beans/peas. I truly thought I may die of exhaustion that night. So, I apologize for being silent over the past week, with all this "preserving the summer bounty" I don't have much time to write about it.