Disney Bound!

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning". We're Disney bound tomorrow on the bus at 6 am tomorrow for Walt Disney World. What a dream to be participating with four other members of the Snappy Tappers and dance students from Sharon's School of Dance.

Root Cellar

With the harvest of our garden finished, here'a a photo of our stored food for the winter in our root cellar. A root cellar is one of the oldest and easiest ways to preserve fresh fruits and vegetables through the winter months in cold storage.  Our root cellar is an underground room used for preserving fruits and vegetables for several weeks or months. Shown hanging are cabbage and in the bags are potatoes, all root vegetables. Good eating this winter!

Got Milkweed for Honeybees?

The milkweed is the host plant  for the monarch butterfly but milkweed is also a favorite bee plant. I was amazed to see honeybees, bumblebees, and butterflies all enjoying the nectar from the milkweed plants.

Harvesting Sugar Pie Pumpkins

Let’s make a pumpkin pie! This is my second year growing sugar pie pumpkins and I'm expecting a bountiful harvest. I gathered my ripened sugar pie pumpkins from my pumpkin patch but have 24 pumpkins and more still on the vine that haven’t ripened. I can't wait to make pies, cakes, breads, etc. with these beauties! 

Last Apple Picking

The summer has flown by and fall is in the air. Picked the last of the Wolf River apples from the top of the tree. Even the Black Swallowtail butterfly with tattered wings stops to enjoy the last fruits of the season. I think the poem After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost and Genesis 1:29 sums it up.

After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree 
Toward heaven still, 
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill 
Beside it, and there may be two or three 
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. 
But I am done with apple-picking now...

Then God Said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Genesis 1:29