Bck to the future

Sometimes I feel like I live in another century. For the past few days, I've been baking furiously to use up the last of this season's zucchinis ... there are already half a dozen loaves of zucchini bread in the freezer, and I'm thinking of trying to freeze the grated zucchini so I can stop baking. Then, today, I picked 25 pounds (!!!) of tomatoes at Coonamessett Farm. I've spent a good part of the afternoon and evening parboiling and skinning them for freezing and canning ... all so we can have tomatoes in the dead of winter without resorting to plastic-lined cans. Meanwhile, we had two cords of wood delivered to fuel the high-efficiency wood-burning fireplace we're installing. Are we taking self-sufficiency and eco-mindedness too far?