No idea why pictures did not come out,

so I reposted them.

I just love the mallows.

They just appear.

They bloom from the end of daffodils until frost.

We tend to have about 10:1 Pink:White.

They make a great cut flower, too.

Lets Try Again - Pictures not showing up.

September 25, 2010

Today was a glorious fall day.

The temperature was in the 70s, and it was clear and breezy.

The Michaelmas Daisies are spectacular.

This honeybee thinks so, too.

Milkweed has started to release the seeds.

That's always magical.

Amazingly, we still have not had frost!

Alas, the tomatoes succumbed to late blight.

We were able to get some to ripen,

so it's better than last year where we got zero tomatoes from 35 plants.

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There seems to be a problem with uploading pics.

This is an attempt to solve the problem by re-saving the post

Chickens are Entertaining

I was shelling beans,

but the last time I sat on the wall, it was corn.

With corn, there are lots of bits for chickens to eat.

The chickens came over hoping for something good to eat.

Alas, no good food today.

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The cucumbers wilted shortly after the kids were here.

D cleaned the area, and the chickens think he did it for them.

It's a great place for a dustbath.

And it makes it easy for Tommy to find them.

Apple Pie from our apples.

Apple Pie
from our apples.

I used the Apple Pie by Grandma Ople recipe from allrecipes

with a few changes.

Ingredients

• 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 8 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and sliced

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar and brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.
2. Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work of crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.
3. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft.

I used a bought crust, added cinnamon and nutmeg.

It just came out of the oven, and we can hardly wait!

It smells good!!!

Sausage McMuffin, Three Months Later

Well, at the end of the school year, I just put my things aside, and I never emptied my bookbag until today.

I was surprised to see a McDonald's bag. It didn't smell, so I assumed it was empty.

Wrong.

I think I must have bought two and only had time to eat one Sausage McMuffin way back in June.

Now, three months later...

No smell. No mold. Rock hard.

Even after the most humid summer on record.














What does that tell us?

Corn - Mandan Bride

D picked the Mandan Bride corn a few days ago.

The guinea fowl had been having a wonderful time in the cornfield, taking dustbaths, and knocking down the stalks, and generally making a mess.

It was time. . .

Aren't the kernels beautiful!

There is only one ear of red.

Several ears of blue.

The variegated one is nice, too.

They are now strung on wire, hanging on the porch to dry.

There are a few more that are not quite ready.

We'll pick them next week.

Tomatoes have started!

This morning we picked the first Howard German tomatoes.

This evening we added two more:

Cherokee Purple and Golden Queen.

They are heirloom tomatoes, and the flavors are fantastic.

Our tomatoes are grown from seed we have saved.

(Seeds for many are available from SeedSavers Exchange.)

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It's time for the summertime favorite:

Raw Tomato Sauce for pasta.

Tastes best over buttered angel hair spaghetti or linguini.

The ingredients:

Tomatoes

Basil

Parsley

Garlic

Pepper

Olive oil

Serve at room temperature over buttered pasta.