Transitions

The bloglessness of Alert the Pizza can be blamed on this Sexy New Beast—I mean, computer (SNB, for short).  It is the biggest, shiniest, fastest computer I have ever had.  It is also my first Mac.  A great deal of attention has been paid to figuring out where things are, how things are set up, how many music cd’s I can rip during one afternoon, and just how many scribbles the Sonars can cram into one KidPix screen.  

Already it has changed our lives.  We may give away the tv.  

We are still poking along on a dial-up connection, but tomorrow we will add a smokin’-fast internet connection worthy of the SNB.

In other news, seven pounds of very small tomatoes are currently undergoing transition into canned tomato sauce.  The whole house smells like a ketchup factory.  Heyyyyyy, speaking of ketchup.  That’s what I’ll have to do with the next seven pounds.  And yes, there are at least seven pounds of tomatoes out there.  Quite likely a lot more than that actually. 

Seven quarts of tomatoes went into today’s sauce (funny how it’s about a pound per quart).  They will result in seven pints of finished sauce.  One pint of edible-looking tiny tomatoes is going for at least $3 at our local grocery right now.  That makes today’s seven quarts worth at least $42.   (Does that seem crazy to anyone else?)  We paid just a few dollars for the six tomato plants that produced this seven pounds and at least ten other pounds earlier, and a good many many many pounds to come.

Of course, I could buy seven cans of tomato sauce for a dollar a pop.  So, $42 of fresh food can be turned into $7 worth of canned food.  (Does that seem crazy to anyone else?)

Comments

[Ileana]

Macs rock! It took awhile for me to convert but now I love them! I'm glad you're having fun with it so far!