Long Time No Post!

No posts recently due to the flurry of harvest and processing activity.  I have been spending more time at my grandparents farm helping them get the harvest in and processed.  I also have been buying up in bulk to freeze or can for winter.  We are looking pretty good with many fruits and veggies put away, but we aren't finished yet and we are slowly running outta places to store things!  Just yesterday we drew up plans for a potato/winter squash bin only to find we couldn't afford the wood!  If only we still operated on the trading system, I have plenty of compost to trade!  Speaking of compost, I am gonna have to say "Au revoir!" to one of my worm bins!  They have done their "doody"(quite literally) and now I must release them into the garden!  My first bin is teeming with life and they take after their mum in their strong love for all things squash (tear).  Once I have dumped the worm bin I will then split up the other so that they have more room to spread out and of course more room to poop.

Don was such a dear yesterday.  He went to the intense trouble of borrowing a beast of a tiller and then he extended my garden plot.  It feels so good to know we are finally doing things properly instead of last minute and haphazard-like.
This year with all the tomatoes I decided to make spaghetti sauce to can.  My first batch turned out pretty nice and I got 5 quarts.  I have some more tomatoes thawing and hope to make another 5 quarts tonight.  Right now I am attempting pumpkin butter and finding that when it boils it looks like the Bog of Eternal Stench and it can spatter up to 4 feet in diameter-OUCH!  And yes, I have been burned countless times now.

And now for the recipe portion that should be in all blog posts:  follow this link for some tasty and healthy cookies!  On one of my late returns from the farm I found Don baking up a storm in the kitchen.  He had a craving for cookies and so went for Honey Oatmeal, only he added some Choc/Peanut butter swirl chips to his batch.  I hope you try them and don't forget to try dipping them in milk-mmmmm!
I pray we all take the time to enjoy God's beautiful symphony of colors during this Fall season!