Canning tomatoes

Everyone knows how much Vivian loves home grown tomatoes. (She always has a "sequoia" tomato growing in her front yard.) Well, she also loves to can home grown tomatoes. In fact, she plans her visits with us to coincide with the annual tomato canning event. One year she was here, and we had just picked a bushel of tomatoes, and were carrying them from the garden to the house. She was in the lead position and I was following behind. As we know, Vivian never does anything in slow motion, and carrying a heavy bushel of tomatoes didn't seem to slow her down at all. As I said, I was in the rear of this parade, when my flip-flop blew out. I fell to the ground , as Vivian rounded the corner. She couldn't see me, and I couldn't yell to her fast enough to slow her down. She ended up dragging me through the grass, and into the rocks. When I finally can to a stop, she peered around the corner at me, and said that she couldn't understand what was holding me up. I guess that she was really in a hurry to get those tomatoes canned!!!!