August 15, 2025

 So far, this has been quite the year. I've been doing more work at the office, looking after Oliver part time, going places and weeding and putting up garden stuff. That stopped after we got back just before August and corn needed to be done up. So we did, five batches of it, three by ourselves and one each with Lorene's family and Aaron. In total we put up 36 and a half dozen ears which produced 94 quarts of corn to freeze. 

I've put some onions in the freezer, we've dug a few potatoes, I've made some pickles, mostly dill and beet. I made one batch of Bread and Butter Pickles that are mostly onions and we've frozen about 3 gallons of beans, and the rest we are just letting go to pot. We are too tired and too busy to care much. The garden didn't do very well anyway and we were gone too much. I put my swiss chard stems in the freezer for smoothies and we are starting to get a few tomatoes, but they are overtaken by water hemp or whatever that hugely tall weed is with the sticky seed heads.

I like photos with my blogs, but I accidently deleted the one I wanted, which was a annual about the color of this darker sweet potato vine that is doing well. There is some yellow thing growing nicely. I guess I better take photos of the plants to remember that way. I want them again next year.