Putting up

We recently had a camera emergency. To my dismay, the viewfinder for the digital camera went blank so we could not see what we were photographing until the camera was plugged into the computer. What a major hassle. This was an improvement, however, from the time when the camera also stopped taking pictures. This resolved intself without intervention. I mentioned the viewfinder issue to Jon, and here is how the conversation went:

Me: "We need to buy a new camera."
Jon: "How come?"
Me: "It's not working."
Jon (with an implied "DUH"): "Did you do the drop test on it?"
Me: "The what?"
Jon: "The drop test. When something stops working, you drop it, and it starts working again."
Me (dubious): "Huh. No, I didn't."

Later that evening...
Jon: "The camera is working again."
Me: "It is?!?! How did you fix it?"
Jon: "Duh, I dropped it."
Me: "No way."
Jon: "Way."

I should mention that both Jon and I are engineers with Fortune 100 technology companies which makes this methodology seem rather simpleton to me. Or is it? If we apply the principles of Occam's Razor, it is really the obvious solution.

Go Big

It was really hot here this past weekend. Temperatures in the 90s, felt like they were in the 100s with the added humidity, so we spent most of the days indoors. We stayed largely in our gender-defined spheres of influence, me in the kitchen and Jon working on the bathroom renovation.

I put up 5 pints and 5 half pints of salsa.

This is how many tomatoes we had left after canning the salsa (we hadn't gotten around to picking that day).

I also made a few loaves of zuchini walnut bread and cheddar dill beer bread (one large loaf was still in the oven).

I'll post the recipes here soon. For now, I am off to slice a hunk of bread and slather it with lightly salted organic cream butter. Yum.