The Guys Have Been BUSY

 Yesterday while I was teaching, 

Rod and Kyle went into town and

got some wood.

And then there was a RAMP into the new shed!

As well as steps into the "man door" on the side.

These guys don't let any grass grow under their feet!

Give them a task, and they get on it.

This morning started S L O W at the market.

But ended up with some large-ish sales and did ok.

Not as much as some weekends, but double what

we did the last time we were there.

(Took last weekend off to visit with Jim and Sabrina...)

I've got a TON of cherry tomatoes left that need to 

be sorted through, and then I'll probably slice up

5 trays worth to put in the freeze dryer when the pears

finally get finished and come out.

Then I'll bag up the rest and take them to church.

Plus a bucket full of okra that needs to be sliced

and into bags in the freezer.

And a bunch of zucchini and yellow squash.

I'll probably grate that and put it on trays to FD.

And a bunch of peppers I'm going to dice

and just get into bags for the freezer.

I like to add those to our breakfast eggs.

And then I'll drive up to the farm and do a harvest.

I don't think Kyle's harvested for a couple days.

So there will be a lot of okra that's too big.

We just cut it and toss it under the plants for compost.

But there should be a couple buckets of tomatoes.

And some okra that is right for harvesting.

(It has been raining and chilly all week though,

so probably the okra slowed down a little...)

Meanwhile.

Rod was wondering why there weren't any seeds

on any of our volunteer sunflowers.

The local birds are gearing up for winter.

I don't now if you can see them, but there

are about 6 birds in that picture, but there were

about a dozen birds all over the plants.

(And more hanging out on the cattle panels...)

Glad somebody is getting some use out of them!

(I still have half a giant bag of sunflower seeds

in the garage - the chickens get a little scoop 

every day, but at this rate they will last through

the millenium.)