Tomatoes freebies and the old man

[2010ontest]

got a call at supper...

An old man (90 years-old) in my area was having too many tomatoes for him. He already canned his 100 liters and was disesperate to found a good home for his tomatoes. My cousin put me in touch with him and now I have 3 Loblaws plastic green bin full of tomatoes smelling full sun sitting in my kitchen.

I love that kind of freebies. I love them for all the human contact beside those.

The old man was so kind. He was knowing my grand-father and talk of him with me. He "thanks' me many time to do good use of his precious garden tomatoes. It was a wonderfull moment.

[neelkamalll1979]

That's great, our tomatoes are finally slowly started to ripen.

[snuffaluffagus]

I'm sure you made his day as he made yours . What a wonderful brag.

[Patty Smyth]

What a great story, must have given him greast pleasure to share his wealth with you .

[ssbean]

What a wonderful brag! Enjoy the tomatoes!

[2010ontest]

I'm sure you made his day as he made yours . What a wonderful brag.

I'm sure also!

I wish I had more time to spend with him.

But I needed to go at Teacher's meeting for DD1

[2010ontest]

What a great story, must have given him greast pleasure to share his wealth with you .

Patty, this old man was so proud and happy to share with someone able to made good use of his tomatoes.
The expression on his face stay in my head.

And I'm sure many old people like him would love to share with younger people, but we just don't know it or need to be put in touch in some way.

[2010ontest]

What a wonderful brag! Enjoy the tomatoes!

I enjoy the tomatoes for sure!

I needed at least 150 lbs to get my goal of 600lbs for my tomatoes canning season.
With those tomatoes this is close to be done!

[2010ontest]

That's great, our tomatoes are finally slowly started to ripen.

Here (in my area not to far from montreal, but enough far) some people was affraid of frost on garden last night and many people harvest tomatoes yesterday. But frost didn't happen, we still hav few days!

[Natalka]

How wonderful of him to share! And it's lovely that he can share stories of your grandfather with you!

We have a lovely elderly man living right across the street from us - he will sometimes come over with extra garden produce people have given him, it's very sweet. In return, we help him with things around his house and yard once in a while.

He's great to talk with, lots of stories, he's very active and interesting.

[angel_2011]

very sweet brag

SIL grows tomatoes & cucumbers - every week she brings us a bag full of each

[AnnieP]

Wow! Really nice.

[Darth Penguin]

nice on-test, gettin g free tomatos and hearing stories about your grand father...

[2010ontest]

I must said, my grand-father we were talking about is still alive!

In fact, both grand-father of mine are alive and close of 90 years old now.

[avoncallingu]

600 lb. of tomatoes processed! That's wonderful. What a lovely neighbourhood you live in that people share - stories as well as produce! I have 3 tiny grape tomato plants - I've largely ignored them - but we have managed to eat about 20 tomatoes. We aren't supposed to see frost for a while, I don't think. Enjoy your "bounty"!