Wow! Life has been busy these last few weeks! Things don't appear to be slowing down anytime soon either, so I decided I'd better check in with all of you and let you know that I'm still here.
Our garden is in full swing, so we've been trying to stay caught up on weeding, picking, freezing, and canning. Weeding has been a bit hard to keep up with as we've gotten a decent amount of rainy days in a row recently. That said, we need the rain, so no complaints. We've now had 2 harvests of cabbage, which resulted in cannings of saurkraut and cole slaw in addition to what we ate. Onions are drying, although we always used a decent amount of those with our lettuce (both are done for the year unless we do a fall garden). Carrots are also done and what's left of those are in the fridge. Tomatoes are starting to produce a bit more, so we're getting those to eat plus I combined some of the really ripe ones (our kitchen window was piled full of tomatoes) with the boxes that we got on sale at a local produce stand last weekend. So far 4 quarts and 15 pints of tomato juice. Blackberries have also been blooming in the field; I've not gotten to pick as many as I would like, but we've gotten some put up along with a few jars of blackberry syrup (wild blackberries are so much better than the tame ones). Zucchini and squash have been doing better and I've frozen quite a bit of that. Also, green beans have started producing and we've canned quite a few over the weekend.
Life is also changing in some exciting ways with my husband's law firm, but more on that soon.
Well, off to try to corral two little ones into bed now that they've managed to stay up way past bedtime.
