First Frost = Lots of Work!

 This is the time of year I need to take a couple of weeks off of work to deal with the fall harvest, we are overwhelmed with fruit and veggies.  Until the frost hits we can pick when we want, but after the first frost all of the veggies have to be picked and dealt with.

 One of about 8 apple trees, and the same amount of plum trees. Everyone we know who wants fruit has fruit and we still have a ton to deal with.  The leftovers keep the deer fed for a while though.

 The frost just melts all the plants in the garden, they look so sad now.

 Last week-end I made 11 pints of salsa, dried apples, made apple sauce, and a plum apple sauce. Plums and apples go really well together.

Didn't forget my favorite guy, he ended up with an apple pie, one of many I'm sure!

Not Bad for an Amateur

My daughter wanted a "smash" cake for her sons first birthday party, so of course I was elected.  Then she said she wanted it to be the Cookie Monster...............that took some thought, but I think I did ok.....

Glad I just used a cake mix and didn't go all out with something from scratch, it did become a "smash" cake too, then all the kids liked getting cookies off of it.

Matching Blanket

The hat a bootie set I made a while ago was ordered with a matching blanket, finally got this done and delivered.

 Sometimes you don't have to have a difficult pattern, simple can look very nice too.  This is a simple little shell stitch, just like the hat.  2 double crochet, chain 2, 2 double crochet in the same stitch, skip 2 and repeat.

Town Lions

In downtown Pomeroy, lurking in the alley are a couple of wild cats, just driving through town you'd never know they are there, lurking in the shadows......................

 This is Jonesy and Harry (not too harry now). They live behind the shops and help keep the mice population down. One of the shop owners kind of adopted them, poor pathetic kitties.  It takes them a while to trust anyone, but have finally started coming up to me for a petting now and then.  Harry (the yellow one) had to have an eye removed years ago and is missing a few teeth, but seems to be getting along pretty good. Their hair is so long and was so matted, that the shop owner decided to take them in for a hair cut, figured they'd be more comfortable in the 90-100 degree weather this summer.

My Kind of Place

 I've been wanting to get pictures of this place for a long time now, wish I could say it was ours!  But this is the Artisan Art Gallery just outside of Uniontown, near Pullman, basically out in the middle of no where.

 The Barn is great, but this is what I absolutely love, the fence, how cool is that?!

 I wonder how long it took to find all of these wheels.........................and then put them together..........

It goes all around the whole place. Maybe next time we'll stop and check out the art!

Tiger Swallowtails

I have to admit the husband is getting pretty darn good with the camera.................we were just sitting in the yard watching the chickens when we noticed these beautiful butterflies come into the flowers, he had the camera and was up snapping pictures within minutes of their arrival.

Spring at The Byrd Farm

Love this time of year.............but with it comes a lot of work!  Enjoy the spring.......