Yooo hooo GayleMO??? Your mailbox is full.
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music-city-missy
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Gayle, don't know about you but I'm not sure who's having more fun here, us or Marilyn....
It was like a conquest to see if we could get them there and how they would be once they arrived. The other fun part was thinking about what would happen if they either started to 'bleed'. I guess folks in the package delivery have seen it all but I just had visions in my head based on something that happened to us one time.
We made one of my husband's famous apple crumb pies and froze it real good. Then he packed it inside a soccer ball box and put that inside another box. He works by the bus station and mom picked up packages daily at the bus station (this was 15 years ago). So off it went on a bus trip from Nashville to Jackson, MS. Not all that far - about a 6-7 hour ride. But DH made the mistake of putting on the outside that it was a pie. So somewhere at one of the stops between Nashville, Memphis and Jackson, someone got hungry and decided to try the pie. So mom goes to pick it up the next morning and opens it up in front of her guy that she always picks the packages up for intending to give him a piece and there is an empty box within the box. Someone opened it and took it out and then repacked it and sent it on. So Greyhound paid us something like $60 for the pie and shipped the second one for free. I was just wondering if anyone would get hungry and eat our tomatoes.
It was like a conquest to see if we could get them there and how they would be once they arrived. The other fun part was thinking about what would happen if they either started to 'bleed'. I guess folks in the package delivery have seen it all but I just had visions in my head based on something that happened to us one time.
We made one of my husband's famous apple crumb pies and froze it real good. Then he packed it inside a soccer ball box and put that inside another box. He works by the bus station and mom picked up packages daily at the bus station (this was 15 years ago). So off it went on a bus trip from Nashville to Jackson, MS. Not all that far - about a 6-7 hour ride. But DH made the mistake of putting on the outside that it was a pie. So somewhere at one of the stops between Nashville, Memphis and Jackson, someone got hungry and decided to try the pie. So mom goes to pick it up the next morning and opens it up in front of her guy that she always picks the packages up for intending to give him a piece and there is an empty box within the box. Someone opened it and took it out and then repacked it and sent it on. So Greyhound paid us something like $60 for the pie and shipped the second one for free. I was just wondering if anyone would get hungry and eat our tomatoes.
gayle-mo
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Funny! Well, I told the guy at our PO what was in the box....
and he said I must have a pretty good friend to be willing to pay that price to ship a box of tomatoes! LOL Tickled me! I assured him she was worth every cent! smileys/smile.gif
I just hope the tomatoes had flavor. Our garden is not producing it's normal great items! It's really annoying but it's a common problem in our area this yr.
Hey, Mar - was it the biggest tomato that died? I knew that one was iffy but decided to chance it since it was still a little under ripe.
((hugs))
and he said I must have a pretty good friend to be willing to pay that price to ship a box of tomatoes! LOL Tickled me! I assured him she was worth every cent! smileys/smile.gif
I just hope the tomatoes had flavor. Our garden is not producing it's normal great items! It's really annoying but it's a common problem in our area this yr.
Hey, Mar - was it the biggest tomato that died? I knew that one was iffy but decided to chance it since it was still a little under ripe.
((hugs))
Yep, but I was still able to save half of it and ate it at the counter!
When I sliced it open, the juices were as thick and dark as puree. Amazing.
Thanks again to both of you....Lar and I are SO enjoying this. He's still a little shocked about eating jams (Cyn and Angie), English syrup (Harriet) and tomatoes (MCM and Gayle) from folks he doesn't know. Lucky us.
MCM...that is too funny about the pie. Thank goodness your MIL opened the box in front of them. Who would have believed her otherwise?
When I sliced it open, the juices were as thick and dark as puree. Amazing.
Thanks again to both of you....Lar and I are SO enjoying this. He's still a little shocked about eating jams (Cyn and Angie), English syrup (Harriet) and tomatoes (MCM and Gayle) from folks he doesn't know. Lucky us.
MCM...that is too funny about the pie. Thank goodness your MIL opened the box in front of them. Who would have believed her otherwise?
my sis sends me tomatoes from Indiana---wrap them in newspaper and then cushion the box well with
bubble wrap or more crumpled newspaper. Don't wrap in plastic as that can cause mold/weeping. Pringles cans work well for stacking smaller tomatoes, wrapped in a bit of newspaper too. It absorbs moisture but lets them "breathe". (Faith Hill anyone?)
bubble wrap or more crumpled newspaper. Don't wrap in plastic as that can cause mold/weeping. Pringles cans work well for stacking smaller tomatoes, wrapped in a bit of newspaper too. It absorbs moisture but lets them "breathe". (Faith Hill anyone?)
gayle-mo
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Great! I'm so glad you got to eat at least part of it....
It's been so cool here, in the 70's, which is nearly unheard of for Aug in Missouri, that we have only harvested about 6 more since sendng that box out last Fri! I see a bunch of the miniature Romas on the vines, though.
Tell Lar he might have to visit Mimi's once in awhile to get to know the good group here! Then, he'd understand.
My DH has met so many of my net friends that he's never surprised anymore. smileys/smile.gif
I know there are some kooks out there but I've never met any of them!
It's been so cool here, in the 70's, which is nearly unheard of for Aug in Missouri, that we have only harvested about 6 more since sendng that box out last Fri! I see a bunch of the miniature Romas on the vines, though.
Tell Lar he might have to visit Mimi's once in awhile to get to know the good group here! Then, he'd understand.
My DH has met so many of my net friends that he's never surprised anymore. smileys/smile.gif
I know there are some kooks out there but I've never met any of them!
music-city-missy
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My grandmother stored the last tomatoes of the season in newspaper....
the night before the first frost she would pick the vines clean - didn't matter what color and then store them in layers of newspaper in a make-shift root cellar and they kept for quite a long time.
I think the first time I packed them they had too much plastic surrounding them and it held the heat and such in and started cooking them before I even got to the post office. So the second time I just put bubble wrap and air bags around the perimeter.
I didn't get around to it but I was thinking about getting some PVC pipe and cutting it into rings, line with newspaper or paper toweling and using that as a framework to protect the tomatoes - sort of like the pringles can idea - I'll have to remember that and save my pringles cans now.
the night before the first frost she would pick the vines clean - didn't matter what color and then store them in layers of newspaper in a make-shift root cellar and they kept for quite a long time.
I think the first time I packed them they had too much plastic surrounding them and it held the heat and such in and started cooking them before I even got to the post office. So the second time I just put bubble wrap and air bags around the perimeter.
I didn't get around to it but I was thinking about getting some PVC pipe and cutting it into rings, line with newspaper or paper toweling and using that as a framework to protect the tomatoes - sort of like the pringles can idea - I'll have to remember that and save my pringles cans now.