Summer has been a busy season for us this year.
Lots to do and things happening here on the homestead. This blog is gonna cover several weeks worth of random things here on the homestead that have been going on. I have been working on a couple of wood projects and I will put that in another post. But for now lets look in on the garden.
Sweet Banana Peppers
We were in such a drought and the pond looking like it was gonna dry up. Next thing you know God sends us rain. Lots of rain!
Our garden just took off and started to produce. So the girls and I have been trying to keep up.
Peppers
I am saying that's a lot of tomatoes.
Tomatoes, peppers, banana peppers, chili peppers, black eyed beans are drying nicely.
Willow watching me in the garden.
Several days later another great harvest.
Got the dehydrator going to dry them chili peppers.
We ate some of them peppers with dinner and put the rest in the freezer.
One of the batches of tomatoes, we canned homemade Salsa!
YUMMY!!!
We have been having a lot of rain and it finally moved out and let some blue skies show through.
And check out the pond filling back up and the green grass!
Got corn from a local farmer not far from us.
Our corn isn't ready yet and we aren't sure if it will still produce any or enough for us. My girls are super picky. I raised them that way. I take full credit for it. So, they won't eat just any corn. They want it right off the cob. So we get a big supply of corn and prepare it for the freezer. Can't get any fresher than that.
Here they are hard at work shucking all the corn.
Meanwhile, I fine cleaned them and blanched them.
The girls cut the corn off the cob.
They also put them in the bags.
They are some hard working girls. Many girls their age don't know how to do the many tasks they do here on the homestead.
Tim and I worked on getting the bags ready and sealed for the freezer.
We have wonderful neighbors who have bees.
We got blessed the other day with huge jar of honey.
Thanks friends!!
Butter was getting low. I got my order in from Azure and was able to can my butter. I love the color after it's canned.
Let's head over and look in on the animals.
Brex
Greyson
Prettyboy
Button
Chuck
(Rain's babies)
These are the girls.
(Rain's babies)
These are the boys. We had to separate them or we would have tons more. Right now we/Kaitlin has 44 rabbits but 8 of the males are sold.
Phantom
Cuddles and Willow
Hope getting some attention from Skylar.
Turkey's are growing big.
I think I might split them up.
We are still running the chicken tractors daily.
All chicken butts!!
Ducks are doing good.
They sure remind me if I forget to feed them.
I worked on this storage area made out of pallets.
This is storing our recycle bins.
Skylar's reaction to Kaitlin driving for the first time on the road.
Throwback to January 2016 when Kaitlin had the same reaction to Skylar driving.
Another wonderful day.
The family got together for a BBQ on Labor Day.
Brieanna, Kaitlin, Skylar, Isabella Grace, EmilyMae, and Liam
Tristen making some kool-aid.
My beautiful daughter and my grandkids.
Tim and I
Jessica and Isabella Grace and look at that yummy food!
Liam got glasses.
School around here has offically started.
Kaitlin and I enjoying the nice cooler weather while she is working on her school.
Hope with one of the roosters that hangs out with her during the day.
