In our life this week… Monday: canned salsa and salsa juice. Tuesday: cancelled our preserving plans due to porcupine quills in one of the dogs, a skunk in the live trap, and glasses lost in the raspberry patch. Wednesday: canned applesauce. Thursday: canned salsa and salsa juice. Friday: canned apple slices Sure, we did a […]
Weekly Wrap Up
Weekly Wrap Up: More Harvesting
In our life this week… Again, this week has been all about preserving the harvest. We pickled beets, froze tomatoes, made applesauce, froze apple slices for crisps, froze raspberries, and pickled vegetables. We experienced some big excitement this week was when our area was overrun by a drug team that found marijuana growing in […]
Weekly Wrap Up: Harvest, Outing, and Educating Girls
In our life this week… Fall is obviously beginning. Besides a Labor Day storm and long power outage, we also had frost. We’ve been harvesting the garden, wearing extra clothes, and ignoring the pool. And some of us are dealing with a tummy flu which may or may not be due to birthday candy. Probably […]
Weekly Wrap Up: The First Week
In our Life this Week… We did very little besides adjust to school, fit things in around school, and play hooky—all school-related activities. When I took half a day off to visit my distant doctor (and buy a beautiful dress on the way), the kids all neglected their schoolwork. And what did they eat? Marshmallows […]