Beautiful Weekend

The weather in Northern Virgina was perfect this weekend!  Saturday we went camping with the cub scouts so we weren't able to work at WW but as soon as we got home on Sunday and unpacked we headed out to the woods.

Chris, Jackson and Patrick worked on assembling their 2 person deer stand.  They almost completed it but realized they were missing parts.  Chris called the manufacturer but the stand was disontinued 5 years ago and they won't sell him any parts.  I am sure that Chris will find something to make it work.  he is so handy!

I move the wild asparagus to the garden in an attempt to tame it.  I have a 4x8 spot packed full of asparagus and I can't wait to see if it even comes up in the spring.  I still have one wild patch just in case I don't get any this year.

While we were all working, Cooper enjoyed his hammock!

More Cylinder Characters

We've added a couple more characters to the concrete line up.  Thanks to Alexis for the great photo and for giving these guys a loving home!

Happy Fall..Y'all

I have been working at getting the garden ready for winter.  Pulling out the things that are dead or I am tired of (peppers), working compost in and covering with straw.  We finally found a use for the cylinders.  As you can see in the photo they look great as pumpkins.  I've painted up about 20,  if you'd like one,  just let me know.  They are guaranteed not to blow over in the wind.  I wonder how they will look as snowmen.  Any other ideas of how to paint them?   Please post!!!!

Weekend Warriors Wet

We got some good work done on Saturday clearing what we affectionatly call Junkyard Alley.  We had some trees fall in the spring,  and got them all cleaned up.  We also came across a sizeable deer bed area.  lots of matted grass and scat.  Good signs for hunting season!

Sunday started off with rain so we just hung out a home and enjoyed some family time.

Waiting for Fall

Things have been pretty hectic lately. School has started, Chris' grandmother passed away and everyone got sick. Now that we are all home and healthy here is what has been going on.

We have stacked over 3 cords of wood to heat our house this winter. Chris has built up our small trailer with sides so that I can haul mulch and get both our home and the garden at the property mulched.

I am still sporadically getting tomatos in the garden. I am trying to clean up the beds that are done, but my eggplants and cantalops seem to be fruiting again!

Hopefully in the coming weeks the weather will cooperate and we can work on clearing some trails to the stream. Chris wants to make sure he has things ready for deer season.

 



New Fava bean plants.
Lima Beans in Bkgrnd.



Marigolds in the Tomato beds. 
Looks like fall to me



Sweeeeeet Potato!

We have been so busy lately.  We have been working hard to get our wood stacked up to heat the house for the winter.  So far we have almost a full cord and if the weather holds, tomorrow we should bring home our 2nd cord.

Today the boys and I harvested sweet potatos.  It was a little early, but something ate all the foilage from the plants so I was worried the tubers would rot.  We still got a nice harvest and a couple of really big ones! 

We also harvested any pumpkins or gourds whose vines had died.  We still have some vines producing so we should have some fresh ones for halloween.  The ones we got today we are going to dry in the sun for a day then root cellar them.  All my research says they should keep for up to 4 months,  luckily we just want them to last for 2 months until halloween. 

Waiting for our next big batch of tomatos.

Doing the Can-can

We are getting lots of tomatos , peppers, eggplants, cantalope and rhubarb.  It sure is keeping us busy because what we can't eat, we have been canning.  We've "put up"  rhubarb, veggie sauce, tomato sauce, salsa and loads of pickles. 

While we have been keeping busy, we are looking forward to cooler weather so we can get out there and clean out that house.