It has been feeling very cool in the night and dewy and cool in the morning. And last evening I dug a few potatoes for my dinner. They are really lovely and yummy.
And the apples picked last weekend are ripening nicely. I’ve been eating some but they aren’t quite where they should be for nice eating.
I had just cleaned all these chair cushions and stacked them up –and here is Vlad doing his Princess-and-the-Pea.
The kitties outside have been reveling in this nice cooler weather here. And I have another one of these gorgeous roses. The flowers are so good right now, and I can feel the edge of autumn in the air. I cut some flowers to bring inside –I usually end up bringing them in when I start to feel the weather shifting. I think it is an attempt to hang on to the blooming season.
This picture shows the grand results of the canning. My mother brought peaches, peach jam, and peach salsa. The peach salsa is on the very top and the peaches and peach jam are on the left and right. I canned sweet pickle relish (top left) and bread and butter pickles (upper right, next to the peach jam) before my mother arrived.
In the upper left of this picture, these two 1/2 pint jars are tomato salsa and the red onions in honey. The dill spears are sitting on top of a jar of dill chips. And the green beans are on top of the very obvious bottom row jar of corn.
There are canned beans across the bottom row that are a little less obvious. At the far right is a jar of black beans and on the left, red beans and pinto beans. I usually put in jars of dry beans if there is a space in the canner but I also sometimes do whole batches of canned beans as I really like having them ready to eat.
The canned tomatoes are topped off with a jar of tomato sauce –such a lovely red. The apples under the peach salsa have already made an appearance, I have high hopes for that sweet pickle relish.
And my mother also brought canned cherries, which we forgot to get into this picture, but I will put up a picture of those at some point.
And, just to top things off, here is a picture of a bell pepper in my garden.
We tried a recipe we haven’t tried before and I think it will be really yummy.
And here are two happy kittens after I finally stopped disturbing them with my lawn mowing.
The canning has been roaring along; I had already canned some corn earlier but we did four dozen more ears of corn. Lovely, lovely yummy corn. The apples are canned very simply –a light syrup of sugar and water and no spices. They are really tasty apples and I think they will be great in oatmeal or made into an apple crisp.
Loads more things happening… more pictures soon….
My mother is visiting and the canning is underway… so pictures of lovely canned food very soon. Meanwhile, the pink rose is back, the china asters have finally arrived, and the dahlia I planted in front of the house is showing off nicely.
I only have the two kinds of four-o-clocks –white and these pink ones. They are better at opening in the morning than in the afternoon. The sunflowers are really lovely right now. And there is a very happy bee.
It is the very end of august and the tomatoes are really starting to come on now. I had lovely tomato sandwiches –sliced tomatoes on toast with mayonnaise. And the roses are having another round of blooms. This white bush rose is really blooming and the pink rose in the front has new flowers.
The vastness of the skies in south dakota continue to impress me. Here are some recent pictures of skies and a picture of Minnie because she was being extra cute.
Here are some pictures of happy kitties as the weather acts like it might start to turn to a bit cooler… it hasn’t really turned yet, but there is that slight feeling in the air.
