Sunday

 Just finished my Louisiana class.

Whew!

We had a consistent 21 students.

And some of them were REALLY FUN.

It's fall in the midwest, and if there

is a TINY crack, the flies are coming in.

(Looking for a warm place to hang...)

There's a fly in my office.

He's driving me NUTS!!!!!

Ok.

Enough of that...

Hahaha

We were concerned there might be a 

frost last night, so I did some harvesting.

A full bucket of orange cherry tomatoes.

Half a bucket of reds.

(There were more, but I needed to get done

and head to the house to teach Fri night class...)

I took those to the pigs.

Also a flat and a bucket full of green

amish paste tomatoes.

We'll see if they do anything.

Saturday after class I went into the backyard and 

picked all the rest of the peppers and any

roma tomatoes that were of a decent size.

There are still a TON of tiny ones... we'll see

if they survive and ripen.

I also have a gallon of ripe ones that have

been sitting on my porch.

They are going through the food processor

and turned into pulp.

Then through the sieve and straining out

all the seeds and skin.

Then into jars as unseasoned tomato sauce.

If I have time.

I also have some zucchini and yellow squash.

But I found a recipe online this morning for

fake apple pie using zucchini!

So, I might give that a try!

Saturday evening Kyle went and harvested

all the pumpkins.

It's colder at the farm (north) and EVEN

colder in the valley where the garden is.

*UGH!!! Get away from me fly!!!!

HA! Got him.

Ok.

Anyhow.

He's a really good photographer!

Meanwhile...

BIG NEWS!!!!

We have officially started our house!!!!

Rod is putting the pilings in the ground.

Once they are all in, and held in with rebar,

the guys will work

on getting the tubes around them and

filled with cement.

Kyle is digging another BIGGG hole.

And moving the dirt to the "staging area".

He needs a total of 225-ish yards.

He's got about 114, so just over half way there!

He's banging it out!

He did 12 loads (4 yards each) on Friday!

(In just about 5 hours....)

LOVING the new dump truck!

Tomorrow we have lots of running around

to do, as well as getting more pilings in.

And I have food processing to handle.

And teaching.

Then Tuesday is Hays Day.

Wed I'm teaching again and getting everything

else all finished up.

And Thursday is a TRAVEL DAY!!!!

Yippeeeeeee!

(Somewhere in there we need to move the

dogs and the chickens up to the farm!)

Hope Mom's Birthday was great!

SEE you all soon!!!