Tomatoes and more tomatoes

There reaches a point in the gardening season where one takes the tree shears and hacks the tomato plants at the bottom - because I could not "put up" any more tomatoes!! For the first time I canned this year - tomato sauce mainly and a few salsas (because I got bored with the sauce). It takes so much time and seems never ending. However, the final product is amazing and I fear my family may become tomato sauce snobs. One night I made fresh pasta and we had garden sauce with it and we were all pretty much in a food coma. Now that I know the result is good and worth it, perhaps I will be more anxious about the bushels of tomatoes next year!