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I have been incredibly busy, as we all are during the summer months! After weeks of traveling and a week of recovery (I'll post pictures sometime!), this week is a week of harvesting the garden. I have harvested the remainder of our onions (3 gallons), the remaining white and red potatoes (probably 80-100 lbs total), and the beets yesterday. In the past two weeks, I've picked two large cabbages with about 10 left to pick when ready. I have so many beets (although most are smaller because I didn't thin them as well as I should have - a lesson chalked up to inexperience). Today I'll be canning all the beets. Should be lots of messy red fun! And not to mention hot from all the steam! The one great advantage (and planned on our part) to not starting school until Septermber, is that I need all the help from the boys I can get! And that is how school used to be - didn't start until after the harvesting was done. Families sure couldn't send their boys and girls to school to miss the most important part of farming! So, we will be starting school on September 8. I hope we'll have the garden mostly harvested by then. This weekend will be one of joyful fellowship! On Sabbath, we are driving to just south of Cleaveland to have home church with several friends; the hosts live on a mini-farm in Amish country literally. It is a such a quiet pleasant time - and what better way to enjoy it than to worship the Lord together! Then on Sunday, we will be enjoying more fellowship. I will be turning 30 and it is nice to be with those you love. I do like a good cookout and lots of happy children - I hope to have both! |
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