"Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned." Well got all our wood brought down an' split up. About seven or so cords. Won't know just how much we got till it's all stacked.
After splitin' by hand my whole life, usin' a machine seems like cheatin'. But it sure is nice to knock it all out in two days.
Things'r windin' down in the garden. all that left to harvest is some carrots and broccoli. Just trying to put things to bed.
It's been snowing on an off for the last couple of weeks. not more than an inch in town and it melts off 'fore noon.
the fall colors peaked last week. The mountain was really aglow.
Picked up a new valley car. '97 impreza sport outback. 2.2 liter. 135,000 mi. From a little old lady down the street.
California fires made for some hazy sunsets. 8-31-09
Frosty morning grazing. 9-15-09
Snow on the summit 9-20-09
"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him." -Buddha. Here's a classic trail crew sign. Look out.
So far we've put away four cases of tomatoes. That's 100 pounds in 24 quart jars. Hopefully we can get 70-100 quarts put up before winter.
The zucchini bonanza is on! Just keeping up with harvest is a challenge. We picked two dozen squash this week.
Dill is blooming.
Late Broccoli is in.
Borage is going off.
Their called Mammoth Gray Stripe for a reason.
Bread seed Poppies.
The gardener's best friend hard at work.
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." -Confucius. Took a little vay-k to Wisconsin to see family. Man do they have some good food up that-a-way. This is a picture of Mom's new pad complete with garage, shed, three acres, and apple trees! So happy for y'all.
Three varieties were all producing lots of fruit. yum.
When we got back we were greeted by this, nine foot tall sunflowers!
Got a lot of catching up to do harvest wise.
Harvested two bushels of shelling peas this weekend. They then had to be shelled, blanched and frozen. Looks like we can count on about two bushels a week for the next four or five weeks.
So we'll be spending a lot of time doing this.
We'll be putting away a bushel of snow peas that I just picked tonight.
Squash world is a jungle right now. The pumpkin vines are about ten feet long with fist size fruit. Got about a half dozen fist size acorn squash going and the summer squash are starting to yield. The temperature got down to 37 last night. Yikes! Hopefully we get a few more weeks before it drops much lower!
