Today's Harvest

When your garden sits on an old Idaho potato field, big things happen!

A little color.

The colors were out this weekend at the cabin. I can't get enough of this view from the deck.

A little light repair work. 

While exploring the woods Maddison came running up to me saying, "I found 2 baby porcupines...but I think they are stuck together by something yellow. Some string or something." Of course I had to see what she had found. Any guesses? The answer is at the end of this post. 

Jumping for JOY!

 And Maddie's baby porcupines were....a very fuzzy caterpillar.  Ha ha!

All grown up!

Maddie started her first day of pre-school today. It was certainly harder for me than for her. She was so excited and happily waved good by to me as I hid teary eyes behind sunglasses. 

Sage wanted to go too and was a little sad that she couldn't go with Maddie. But after some free popcorn at the Jiffy Lube, she seemed to forget all about it. 

Sep. 6, 2016

I've been waiting to pick my tomatoes until I was ready to do something with them. I had no idea how many I had until Maddie and I started the great tomato harvest. 

Maddison peeled every last tomato by herself and I think there were at least 60 of them!

We made 8 jars of salsa and bottled the rest of the tomatoes. 

And after picking, boiling, peeling, chopping, mixing, blending, simmering, pouring, and boiling again I haven't the heart to open the salsa to see how it tastes. All that work...I feel like it needs to stay bottled at least for a few days. Steve might have other ideas.