Today was canning day at our house. Nina’s friend donated a couple of big boxes of very ripe tomatoes that were canned this morning yielding 28 jars. We took a break in the early afternoon and got lunch out at a local restaurant. This afternoon and evening Nina has been canning the peaches. She’s got one more batch to go in to the water bath and 28 jars of peaches will be finished. It sure looks good and the day has definitely been productive!

I spent the afternoon moving computer equipment around. I’ve had my development server and my web server here in the office in a rack next to the desk. The room gets very warm during the summer months. I put a ceiling fan in a couple of weeks ago to get better air circulation in the room and that helped some, but I finally decided to move these two servers downstairs into the utility room. That room is always cool and in the winter gets fairly cold. Just right for servers! The two boxes are now downstairs and working. The office is at least five degrees cooler and later on I’m sure I’ll need to turn the ceiling fan down to the low setting.

That’s how we’ve spent our Labor Day holiday — canning and moving computers. Laboring away … and those peaches and tomatoes sure will taste good.