Just cleaning up odd jobs today. Norman is busy pulling the corn stocks that are left. The raccoons came in and finished off anything that looked like corn so now just clean up that part of the garden. I went up the road and got a few more black berries and juiced those and added it to the berry juice I had in the refrigerator waiting, now after dinner I will make a few jars of black berry jelly. There are no enough black berries to get enough all in one picking to make it worth while to get all the things out to make jelly so I just juice them and wait until I have a little over a quart and today is the day. Then I picked more blue berries to freeze. I have four gallons in the freezer now and am working on my fifth. there are still some green one so each day when we have twenty minutes or so we go out and pick another quart to have for breakfast or to freeze. Looks like this will go one for at least another week. Then Norman came up for break and after that I grabbed him to help make some more sauerkraut. Yesterday we went over to he Amish colony and I got four cabbages for one dollar about 7 1/2 pounds so could make a small batch. I want to try processing this batch to see if it comes out as good as the other batch we made. If so we will grow lots more cabbage next year and make some for everyone for Christmas. They all liked this batch so could use lots next year. Time to cook dinner. The corn is all gone but the green beans are still on the menu along with green fried tomatoes, mashed potatoes, fried chicken nuggets in a sour cream/ mustard sauce with Swiss Chard and a few fried onions and potatoes. Haven’t heard from Rosemary for quite a while, you must be busy on your farm also!! Have a great day.
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I am still here and just lost my first message. We have been busy haying but that is done now. I was going to buy a cabbage this morning at the grocery store but it was $1.29 a pound. Bless the Amish!! Our daughter and family, total 6, are here from Ontario for a few more days. Some are gone to the beach today and Luke, 6, is here with me. I enjoy reading your work every day and always tell John how busy you and Norman are. We have only had beet greens from our garden yet but it is growing. One deer has walked through it. I enjoyed reading about your family and sometime, when we are not so busy, will have to get the details. I haven’t had time for the fun stuff lately!
Nice to know you are all doing well and summer has finally come to the North Country. So far we have had a mild summer, only one day that got almost to 90 degrees. We are still canning from the garden but most of the tomatoes come from a farm in Dunlap. We can grow them for the price they charge, $10 for a 25 pound box so each week we go down and get four boxes. Last year we canned 118 quarts of Mariana spaghetti sauce and some ran out so this year I hope to make more. We did a lot of pickles last year but this year I can’t get the cucumber cheap and Our garden didn’t produce too many so I will make more relish and less pickles. I’ll email you some pictures of the family and give you more details later when things quiet down a little. Stay well.
Good morning, Carol,
If you Google “Woodlot Owner of the Year, Nova Scotia, 2014, you should see a write-up of Uncle Hiram and his son, Ernest. There will be more written about them in the coming months. I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you, I tried and all I got was the winner for 2013 but will keep trying until they get the new winner up.