Fall Season!!

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.

Well so now we are Blogers. :)

The Griggs family is made up of a Papa, Momma and 4 little Griggers. Ages 4, 3, almost 2 and 6 months. We have 2 boys and 2 girls who we love dearly and keep us laughing/learning/working and loving. We are born again believers in Jesus Christ and try and live the way Christ wants us to live in our home, work and social lives. We live on 5 acres in the country and raise chickens for meat and eggs, turkeys, pigs, and have our very own cow with two calves. We are Joel Salatin style grass farmers and are trying to make our small acreage be 100% productive. Our cow is completly grassfed and we love it that way. We are hardworkers and try and do what ever we can to grow and produce our own food on our own place. We are also building a strawbale house around the trailer we now live in. With the idea to finish 1/2 the house and move into it then pull the trailer out and finish the house. Right now our goal is to get the roof on. Hopefully before winter. We live in the North and so winters are long and summers short. Papa Griggs is a truck driver/cat operator and Momma Griggs is a stay at home mom. Or A domestic engineer:)