Work/Rest...39º

More firewood was delivered late Sunday evening, so yesterday in between loads of laundry, Herb was out stacking and splitting a few rounds...I joined him and we worked slow and methodically until we called it a day before noon...Today is sort of a day of rest, more laundry and house work to do.

Now that is a pile of wood.

Where does he start?

We had a hard frost on Sunday night, I'm kind of glad in a way...I gleaned patty pans, cucumbers and parsley, put candy onions in the garage to dry and covered the purple tomatoes for one more night...Today I will pull squash and cucumber vines and Herb will turn on the overhead sprinklers to give the empty beds and garlic a good soaking...No measurable rain in the forecast...Everything I read says that even though you want to be done with watering, fall watering is very important as we move toward winter...We are anticipating the ditch water being shut off by October 1st.

Last patty pans and cukes for this year.

Parsley is now dry and stored.

I have more tomatoes to roast and still thinking about canning chili, beets to pickle, also freezing apples for pie this winter and garlic to dry...Today I will put ham and beans in the oven, for a long slow cook, using the leftover ham bone from last week...A good fall meal...We went to bed last night with the "Harvest Moon," rising and were up this morning to watch it going down behind Ruby Peak...Beautiful fall days are on the calendar this week...Hugs To All...OWAV:)