Yay! It’s canning time again 😉 The season of tired feet, stained fingers, sticky floors and oh so yummy food filling up the empty shelves in our basement again! Every year when the ‘firstfruits’ of the garden come on
Simple Sweetness!
Along with September skies and crisp air comes harvesting even more of our garden. Right now it’s the sweet potatoes. Last year we had a patch of sweet potatoes, it was the first time we tried growing them…and man did
The Blueberry Bog
A few weeks ago, we went to the blueberry bog to pick our annual 100+ lbs. of blueberries. On this particular trip we got about 40 lbs. if I’m remembering correctly 🙂 We got to take Benton, Campbell, Graham
The Joys and Woes of Canning
This is the sight that met us when we took the lid off of the pressure canner last week…oh no!!! This happens from time to time and it happened twice last week 😛 At least it was only one
Boys & Beans
One day in August the boys went out to snap beans. I can’t quite remember if we sent them out to do them, or if they offered to do it themselves. Usually it is the former, but I
A Run Through The Garden
You probably have noticed our lack of posting on our blog…about anything besides Wordless Wednesdays and Seven Sister’s Treasures 😀 We’ve noticed it ourselves and commented to each other one day that we haven’t been posting very
Wordless Wednesday: Pick Me a Peach
Seven Sisters Treasures #46
“I have this minute in my control. It is all I really do have to work with; none that went before, none that shall come in the future–only this minute until it has flashed by and gone….It
Garden Happenings {and such}
Our blog needed an update–again. And I keep intending to post about our gardens, but it hasn’t happened yet. So between sewing and filling out 4-H forms I decided to do it. We have two gardens. One has 30 something tomato