Batch 34 Started, Slack Lines Up

The day started out nice and bright and sunny. We took R to school and it was warm and no clouds then we went to pick up our grocery order and headed home. Within the next 2 hours the clouds moved in and the day got grey. As the clouds moved over from the bunch of cells around it snowed lightly while the sun shone through the gaps. It didn't amount to anything other than losing the sun for the rest of the day.

Once the boys had eaten their lunch I went out and set up a couple of slack lines for them. They are shorter lines, only about 15 and 20 feet long but I put an overhead line for them to use to help them develop their walking technique and balance. Once the weather looks to be better for a while I will setup the long line for me to walk and them to attempt.

For the afternoon R helped me get the next batch of trays ready. In our grocery order I got 8 green bell peppers and more tomatoes to put through the machine. First up were the peppers which I halved then deseeded. R spent his time removing the seeds from the cores into a big pile which we ended up sweeping off onto paper towels and closing the sides to allow them to dry. He wants to try planting the seeds.

With the bell peppers I have to remove the white ribs on the inside. We found with the red peppers that the white parts take the longest to dry out so I am making sure to remove it on these.

The first tray is slices of pepper.

The second tray is "diced" pepper. They are cut into chunks a bit bigger than dices.

Once the peppers were on the trays and we had the seeds dealt with I washed up the tomatoes and cut them up. R helped by putting the pieces on the tray for me. I got 8 tomatoes cut up with most in wedge slices but 1/4 of the tray is smaller chunks.

I suddenly found myself without anything to fill the other 2 trays so I went to the freezers and started digging. I found a bunch of quart ziplocks full of rhubarb so I emptied out one and then about half of the other to fill the tray. I have no clue how this will come out, I just wanted something to fill the tray with and to empty the freezer a bit.

In another freezer we have frozen veggies so I pulled out the corn and filled the last tray with it. I would much rather have the corn on the shelf than taking up room in the freezer.