What it takes

Making salsa:

Picked tomatoes

Brought up jars from the basement

Started a load of laundry

Filled up Luke's swimming pool

(Luke watered the "quilted flowers")

Washed tomatoes

Doused tomatoes in boiling water

Peeled tomatoes

Fed Seamus

Crushed tomatoes

Chopped Peppers

Chopped Onions

Chopped Garlic

Chopped Jalapenos

(Luke says Halloween-yos)
Thanked God for my food processor
Photographed the mess

Added spices

Added salt and sugar

Fed Seamus

Boiled lids

Made chocolate chip cookies from frozen dough

Heated jars

Began cooking salsa

Realized it was lunch time

Warmed up leftover pizza

Lay on the couch for five minutes

Ate leftover pizza

Cleaned up lunch dishes

Read Luke a story

Ate one cookie

Put Luke down for a nap

Ate five chocolate chip cookies

Cut a vinegar container into a funnel

Poured all my morning's work into

5 1/2 jars

Stared at jars disappointedly

Only 5?

Piled dirty dishes in a tidy looking stack in the sink

Stared at jars chagrined. 

Huge shrug.