Very busy morning!!  We started by cleaning up the big wash tub in the back yard so we could wash the spinach out there and keep the wet mess out of the cellar kitchen.  Then right after breakfast we both went out to the kitchen garden and pulled the spinach plants. Then we picked off the good leaves on each plant and put them into the wash tub.  Norman washed them while I finished picking them off the stocks and putting the stocks and old leaves on the compost pile.  We got the water bath canner, the big stew pot and the great big bowl all full of nice fresh crisp spinach leaves.  We then took those into the county kitchen in the cellar and chopped them up, bagged them and they are now all in the freezer – 13 more quarts giving us 20 quarts in all.  We got done with that just in time for break and for me start dinner.  We had chicken and dumplings, potatoes from the garden, beet greens with small beets, from the garden, salad from the garden, and the left over sweet potatoes and Brussell sprouts.   Good dinner but cooking always takes a long time to do right.  This come out wonderfully and now that dinner is all cleaned up and tomorrow’s planned Norman is taking his nap and I am taking a rest.  This afternoon Norman will finish mowing the lawn and pick up around outside.  I will finish up a few odds and ends here in the house.  Tomorrow we will clean  house and write my letters in the morning and then clean up the spinach rows then on Monday I will transplant some more of the extra broccoli plants into the short row and Wednesday we will get more bush been seeds for Norman to plant in the other row.  The beans in the lower garden are starting to bud so it won’t be long before we will have beans to eat.  This new planting will be mostly for canning.  We need about 100 quarts this year but we’ll see how many of those we can get. Time to finish up the day.  Have a great day.