Ants Vs. Grasshoppers

My brother planted grapes and while I was in Walcott the grapes ripened.  I offered to bring them home and turn them into jelly.  I am not sure what I was thinking other than I would hate for them to go to waste.  However while I was gone Greg had picked more cucumbers and they were waiting for me when I arrived.  I also had corn ready to harvest.  All I really wanted to do was to sit down and read a good book and ignore everything else.  It was in the triple digits outside and relaxing seemed like the smart thing to do.  I then remembered the story of the Ants and the Grasshoppers.  I figured that I could have a couple of days of being and ant and then I could be a grasshopper.  We got home on a Monday and that night, I made 14 pints of dill pickles.  Tuesday I took off because of appointments and the need to buy the appropriate supplies to make jelly.  On Wednesday morning Greg called me as I making breakfast and indicated that I needed to check the garden because it had been over a week since he had.  Well that resulted in enough cucumbers to make more pickles, though I decided not to because I had plenty, four tomatoes, and nearly three dozen ears of corn. (much more corn to come).  This is on top of the grapes I knew I needed to juice so I could make jelly.  The thought of being a lazy grasshopper quickly left my mind and I got to work.  The cucumbers will taste good just being eaten, and I was able to get six quarts of corn for the freezer that will taste wonderful this winter.  I got the grapes juiced and was able to get 38 half-pints of jelly out of them.

They do look good and I am sure will taste good as well.  It is always a nice feeling though when I am done being and ant and can sit down and be a grasshopper.  Although maybe I am still being a ant because they had fun after their work was done.