Slaughter/beef...48º

Early morning phone call reminding us that it is the day to butcher beef and ask, "Do we want tails, tongues, liver or hearts?"..Dale (the slaughter guy) will be in Wallowa at 7am this morning at the Harshfield Ranch to process 4 steers...It is a busy day so we divided up the jobs...Herb will go to Wallowa to get the fresh "by products", Rusty isn't going to Idaho until tomorrow so he will stay and start pruning the other apple tree and I will also stay here and bake the second batch of cookies...Fresh beef heart is on tonights menu.

Yesterday was another beautiful fall day in Imnaha, where the Write People met for soup and potluck in celebration of Birthdays, at Janies cabin on Big Sheep Creek...When we arrived a "bug hatch" was in full force...Yes, the air was literally full of tiny critters, so many that we opted to stay inside to read and later when they had thinned out we were able to eat outside...A visit to the Magic Garden before we left found us gleening tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers and tomatilla's...It was a beautiful day with friends.

Back home, cookie dough was chilled and waiting to be baked and a batch of chocolate chip dough in the making...Soon the baking cookie smell overpowered the drying garlic smell...Hmmmm...We sat on the deck to enjoy another Indian summer day...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Sunflowers

A pile of peppers.