Well, I had no idea how busy I would get with fall harvest! But I learned how to make Kosher dill pickles and I wish Daddy was alive to taste them. They turned out better than store bought. I still have many pie pumpkins to harvest, a few squash and many grapes plus the tomatoes are finally peaking. So I'm torn between wanting the tomatoes to go on forever and wanting frost to put an end to those gardening chores. I have boxes piled on the dining area floor of canned goods and jelly. I ran out of cupboard space long ago. So as we strive toward the obtaining of money to finish our root cellar, we have boxes mounting up. The utility room has stacks of pumpkins, acorn squash and butternut and buttercup squash. The potatoes need to be dug. The okra cry a few more leaves off every night. They are so fragile.
Talked to Mom today, she enjoyed the wedding (Lydia and Dennis). Her memory is getting bad and she forgets how to do things if she doesn't do them every day (like how to work the tape player) and her cataracts are making reading anything difficult, probably time for them to come off. She continues to be dizzy a lot. Hard to know whether meds or not getting enough fluids down. But it's probably a combination of the two. I so dread getting old as I watch so many people struggle with it and see how litle advice matters. And, I'll probably be as bad as they. Watch out nursing homes! My generation is going to be terrors!
For those of you that are keeping track, our Sabbath school class is now in the middle of Proverbs. We are reading 7 chapters each week and trying to find one each week that we would like to hang on the wall. I'm happy that we are reaching a place in our relationships where we are more comfortable sharing how the texts impact our lives and what we wish we had better understood as we were growing up. We came to the conclusion, as a group that it's not what you say but how you say it that makes the difference in our understanding and accepting correction and discipline. Anyway, we are now half way through reading the Bible! Isn't that cool!
Somehow, Blackie got to Little Girl before we seperated the sheep for summer and she is very pregnant but when the babies will occur, we haven't a clue! Sleeping Beauty is looking a little too fat for our comfort so I suppose we will have to get her down and take a peek. To much wool to see without the sheep upside down.
Pat's doing our 3rd cutting of hay today. Not a very big harvest but the cool weather tells you it's now or loose the alfalfa with a hard frost.
Well, that is it for today
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