Edge trim wood cut and stacked!!

This morning the rain stopped about 11:00 am.  The boys and I with the help of Tiffy on the tractor pulling the trailer, cut and loaded and stacked the rest of the truck load of wood.  The rest of the week end we'll have to get the splitting done on the bigger stuff in between my working this weekend.  The end of my vacation is at hand.  Overall  we did get quite abit done around here.  A dent to say the least.

God bless you,
Tim

Salsa is done!!!!!

Finally Done!!  19 quarts of Mild, and 10 quarts and 7 pints of Medium.  It looks and tastes GREAT!! not that I'm partial or anything.  We thank the Lord for our abundant harvest.  Time for Tylenol and OFF to BED.  We will have to finish with the wood in the morning, Rain or Shine, there's about half of it left to cut and stack.

 

God bless you all, and to all a good night
Tim

Fall is coming soon!!!!

We have been gathering in the wood for the winter, so far we have a truck load of bigger pieces of wood that need splitting, and a truck load of smaller that just needs cut to length. We get our fire wood from a local guy that has his own sawmill. We get the edge and the trim pieces from the big logs . It is all hardwood, mostly oak and burns really well in our wood stoves. The price is very reasonable and will cut our electric costs this winter. The chain saw has been very busy the last few days, now the real work begins, the splitting.  The boy's and I will be using the axes, hatches, wedges and the Sledge, to make short work of the larger pieces, so they will be more manageable.  We will still have to get another Load of each, but for now it is enough to get stacked and put away.

We also processed about 40 pounds of peaches into peach butter and boy is it wonderful.  It is kind of like apple butter only made with peaches added with nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon.  The girls got the recipe out of the "Ball Book" last year and made a small batch.  We liked it so well that we made MORE this year.

We are making salsa today with the peppers and tomatoes from our garden.  We had to buy onions because ours aren't big enough yet.  We will be  getting it started as soon as my post is done. 

 God bless you

Tim

The New TEA PARTY

My Father in law told me that we will be having a new tea party at Homecoming Park at the pavillion in Wauseon, OH, on The 12th of September 2009, at noon. They are still updating the web site for this event. Good chance that Bob Latta our congressional rep. will be speaking again like the last one. The web site is www.fultonteaparty.com. We encourage all who can, to come and be counted, it is inspiring to see that we are not alone. Hope to see you there!!!!!!

God Bless,
Tim