Uh-Oh, Frost Comes To Town

 A light frost zapped most of the leaves on the squash plants, cucumbers, peppers. Whatever else was a bit sensitive. Not much production going on anyways. We have had some cool nights for a few months now so most of these plants get stunted from that. Plus the intense heat of the day and the dryness don't help much.

All In A Day's Work

This wood was cut, gathered, split (if needed) and stacked all today.

Hunkering Down For The Long Haul

 Our freezers are packed!

Woodshed Full

Five rows deep:

Fresh Hop Ale Bottling

 Hop Monster, fresh hop ale:

Canning Tomatoes

25 pounds of fruit makes roughly 18 pints. (3 - 3 1/2 lbs. per Qt.)

Know Your Farmers, Know Your Food

Wood Heat

 Split 'n' stack.

Hopi Blue Corn Harvest

 Hopi Blue Corn:

Homemade Dill Pickles

Pickling cucumbers chillin'

Thank You Rain

we got a nice, steady inch and a half of rain in the last 24 hours.

Firewood...

...heats  you twice so they say. But I think the guy who coined this one never really cut his/her own.

I say it heats you six times. Cutting, loading, splitting, stacking, bringing it inside and then when you burn it.