Good Morning!

We thought maybe you'd like to see the greetings we receive each
and every morning!

Ole' Bessie, not looking bad for 19 yrs old, Huh!
Button with her usual, "I'm Bored" look.
Addy, she's the lazy one of the three, taking her own sweet time to get

up. You see in the background, Button is already looking to play,

"Let's head butt", with Bessie. Bessie will play for awhile and then

simply puts her weight into Button and pushes her away, Button takes

the cue and looks to play with someone else then.

This is Clint( black), he's a Black Austrolop, with JR( mutt roo) in the

background.

This is some of what we'll be working on today. We're making, End of

the Garden Relish, Sweet Pickle Sticks and Herbed Green Beans

We also have enough tomatoes to run them through the Victorio

Strainer and can tomato juice, YEAH! Then there is corn to pick,

shuck, blanch, cut off cob and freeze and let us not forget the

raspberry patch that NEED to be picked daily now!

Some windfall apples from our trees. These will be washed,

cored and cut , then steamed for the juice to make apple jelly.

The wind blew last night, so we'll have double this amount now.

I'm praying they hold on the tree for a few more weeks, because

we need to make and can pie filling and sauce. We have plenty of

apple butter left from last seasons small crop.

The early sweet corn is finished, so now we're pulling up a row a

day and feeding it to the cows and horse, they love it!

Cantaloupe is ripening slowly, and they aren't as sweet as in

previous seasons, must be the lack of heat?

As soon as we get the majority of the garden wrapped up, we'll

get our sauerkraut started, the freezer slaw made, carrots,

and potatoes dug and in the cellar. The onions are already dug

and curing and will go into the cellar this week sometime.

We haven't harvested as many herbs this season, but we

have plenty left from last seasons garden.

The green house is full again with newly started herbs, for

fresh herbs all winter, and planters of lettuce mix and even

a planter of cat grass for Callie. Cortney experimented

this Spring with planting carrots in a planter, the results

were poor. The planter carrots were woody, and didn't

grow to any length. PTL! they store so well in the cellar.

We'll even have a few beets to store as well.

May your day be full of blessings and productivity. :o)