Well we are right in the middle of fall 'putting up'. We made a trip down south recently and came back with over 1,000 lbs of fruit/vegs. About 3/4 went to family and friends who had made orders and the rest is mine. SO I've been busy canning, drying and doing all the cleaning up that goes with it. So far I've put up 29 quarts of peaches, 1 gallon of dried peaches, 26 quarts of pears, 42 jars of salsa (about 1/3 are quarts) and 10 jars of peach pit jelly. Before we got this I had done raspberry jam, strawberry jam, cherry jam, and cherries. Oh and soup. I still have to finish the pears and peaches (drying the rest), beets, soup, potatoes, apples (sause), peas (shell and Freeze) cabbage and zucinni. Onions and green tomatoes as well. Then of course there is firewood (we are hoping to get it all off our place again this year) and hay hauling and getting the critters ready for winter. Most days I feel like a squirel trying to store enough to keep us fed for the winter.
Yesterday we had a surprise!! I went to the shed to get a tarp to cover the pig feed and I walked in on our cat feeding 2 kittens. They are really cute. About 5 weeks old (we have wondered) and wild. Though they got tamer even as we watched them. One looks just like it's mother (black and white) and the other is orange and white and black. VERY CUTE. Me and J (our oldest Grigglet) went and stood really still until the kittens came out to play. He wants to name the orange/b/w one "Hunter' or "Huntress" As he thinks it will be a great hunter. We are going to start feeding them catfood and milk and see if we can tame them a bit.
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