Grateful For...

… a life to live, my husband to share it with, a little boy who makes me laugh, loving families, friends that care, a supportive and wonderful community, all our needs provided, our daily bread, a cozy home, a warm fireplace, a productive farm, a beautiful valley…
… and most of all an awesome God who love, guides, provides, and protects.

Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Fall on the Farm

Autumn Colors

Fall

It is starting to feel more like fall. There is a chill in the air in the evenings. We have even had several frosts. Much of the garden is nearly done. It is time to harvest the potatoes, the rest of the garlic, and pumpkins and winter squash. Fall has always been one of my favorite seasons. Pumpkins, making apple butter, falling leaves, cozy fires...
It seems to have come a little early this year, summer was short, but I am starting to feel ready for autumn days.

Seed Starting Time

It's that time of year again! Time to get out the potting soil and all the seeds. This year we are starting lots of seeds for our market garden. We are doing things better this time with a handy soil blocker, wooden flats and grow lights.

All Bundled Up

It has been cold here the last few days that I have been really bundling David up when we go out.

Snow on the Crab Apples

Winter is Coming

Autumn Walk

Harvest

Gardening season is pretty much over now, We had a hard fros last week, so we picked all the green tomatoes and harvestedthe squash. There is stillsome cabbage, carrots and beets growing. Here are some pictures of the harvest.

Frost on the flowers

Pumpkins

Sunflowers and tomatoes

Garlic

And I couldn't resist a picture of the baby, too :)

The Garden Grows

The garden is growing well now. These are pictures taken over the last few weeks. We are also just starting to get ripe rasperries. Yum!


Fresh peas

Colorful carrots...

and radishes

Green tomatoes

Bush beans

Tomato blossom

Pumpkin

The corn patch

Potato blossoms

Lettuce

Apple Blossom White

Our apple and crab apple trees are in full bloom. They are so beautiful. This morning it reminded me of a song... It's cherry pink and apple blossom white, when you're in love...

Wildflowers

I took a walk in the back of the property and found some gorgeous wildflowers. I picked a large bunch of them and made bouquets for all over the house.

Fruit Trees and Blueberries

We recently had our fruit tree order arrive. That was an exciting day! We also got five blueberry bushes. Andrew's brothers have been a big help to us in getting them all planted.
Opening the box1



Blueberry flowers.
Blueberries
Andrew and Luke planting a blueberry bush

Blossoms and Peas

Our apple tree is about to bloom, the strawberries are blooming and my peas are growing very well.

Outdoor Dinner

One evening after planting in the garden we had a fun dinner outside. We roasted our turkey franks in the fire and brought out all the condiments. We finished up just in time as it started to rain.