It's Harvest Season!

While it may not be the traditional harvest season, it is the start of garden harvesting time!  Here's what I found in the garden yesterday...

The first of my tomatoes are ripening

First pull of radishes

First head of broccoli

First green bell peppers

First apple at fell from our tree

It's a little on the small side, and it wasn't ripe

And the part that Doug, my kids, my dad, and my sister have been waiting for...pickling cucumbers!

Until next time...

Glimpse into my Garden Galley

Here are some snapshots of what's been going on in (and out of) my kitchen lately...

The kiddos loved helping shuck the sweet corn

Even Charlie tried to help...

Ears of sweet corn are piling up...

waiting to be cut off the cob

Big Bertha and her apprentice, Stainless Steel Suzie

Tomatoes going through the Sauce Master

5 Quarts of Chili Base and 3 Quarts of Tomato Juice

10 pounds of cucumbers soaking in pickling lime...

...makes 7 Quarts of Dill Pickles! (that puts me up to 21 Quarts for the season thus far)

2 LARGE zucchinis shredded

My first 3 loaves of zucchini bread

I was able to make 4 more loaves from what remained of those 2 zucchinis!...my chickens need to start picking up their production rate so I can bake some more yummy-ness :)

Until next time...I'll be canning up some more goodness from my garden!

A Little Catching Up

Last week and weekend, our friends Gema and Agustine were in town from St. Louis. We were so glad that we were able to spend lots of time with them. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures with them. But...Gema brought Dallas a present, and I was able to capture it!

A tractor book!

The perfect present for our little boy...he loved it!

Sitting at the kitchen table (again, in a big person chair) reading his book.

A small video of Dallas "reading" and playing with his book.

Doug decided to open a jar of the dill pickles I made last week. Apparently, they were pretty tasty...

Dallas shoved the whole thing in his mouth!

Dallas found our old house phones while playing upstairs a while back. He loves to sit and "talk" on the phone!

Until next time...