Garden

We planted our fall garden a couple of weeks ago.  We have kale, collards, spinach, lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, and red & green cabbage.  We have a raised bed and mom wanted to have spinach during the winter.  So mom planted  some spinach in the raised bed.  We had a couple of extra pieces of glass from the kitchen addition so we found those and put them on top of the spinach to keep the frost off so we can have spinach for the winter(YEA)!:( Winter is supposed to be a break of salad, spinach, all that other stuff.  Hopefully it will just be enough  for mom and dad! ;)

Hope you are having a wonderful week.

Seth

This is mom's lovely winter garden.

The big garden.

Spinach.

Purple cabbage.

Beets.

Kale.

Broccoli.

Collards.

Lettuce.

Halle

On September 23rd our faithful milk cow Halle died.  She was always gentle unless she was giving you

a friendly head nudge.  She didn't knock over the milk a lot.  She is missed already, and we will probably never get a nicer cow than Halle.  We are out of milk now but will get a cow sometime soon.

Thanks,

Seth

Turkey processing

   

On Monday September 16th we processed our turkeys!  We started by getting our neighbors big crab pot (we have very nice neighbors). We filled the pot with water and heated it up. We only had two turkeys this time so it didn't take too long.  I'll just give you a quick run-through of what we did.  

Josiah and Daddy getting ready

We brought the turkeys over, killed them, dunked them in the hot water, pulled their feathers off, took their feet and heads off, gutted them, put them in cold water, pulled their pin feathers out, and then took them inside. Phew, I got through all of that!!  One turkey we saved for roasting and the other one we cut up and threw in the meat grinder to make turkey sausage.

                                                         I think that covers all of it!

Seth