Sunday Afternoon w/ pics from the harvest festival





Waiting for this batch of peppers to blanch, then in with another load of 'em. I've never done so much canning in October but the frost has held off and the green tomatoes keep ripening, the peppers keep coming to size, and so, the canner stays on the stove. Gi and I also found a bunch of carrots that were never picked, plenty of french breakfast radishes for my mom, and a colander full of green beans, which will probably be for dinner, though I may try canning some once they've been cooked down in curry. E loves them that way, and that way he'd have some easy meals to heat up with rice in March when I'm otherwise occupied. :) I'm actually out of canning jars and lids, so I need to go by the farm store after Gi goes down for a nap to pick some up... if we do another honey harvest we'll probably need a whole other box then too. These are the sort of problems I LIKE to have.



Last night I whipped up 45 double chocolate cupcakes for the wedding cake extravaganza, and today I'll seal those up now that they are frozen and make a double batch of pumpkin spice cupcakes. Tomorrow will be vanilla, and then I should be right around 150 and can concentrate on making sure all my gum paste leaves are done. I found edible bronze and gold "shimmer" powder, which I've been looking for, last night, that'll be nice on the edges of the leaves.

Gi is up to projects of her won, which seem to include rocking her baby doll to sleep and laying out a wide variety of household objects on the hearth and putting them to bed by wrapping them up in tissues. E is off finishing the "dog cage" - putting back up the fence and putting in a larger gate, and once he's done those two are banished for the day. It's amazing the trouble they've gotten up too lately with way too much energy and nowhere to run it off.

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Posted: Sun - October 21, 2007 at 12:40 PM        

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