Lonelilly

Which sounds silly because we work from home and all… but my goodness, there really isn’t enough time in the day. I’m sure this post will take all week to write for that very same reason.

We’re finishing up on a really big client project and it’s taking up a lot of time. We’re also switching over our main blog to a more focused, niche site for designers, and that’s taking up the remaining chunk.

Not to mention the PUPPY–Hunter–we got last week. He’s 3 months old and it’s really starting to show. He’s got quite a case of puppy-itis going on. Way too much energy. He doesn’t know what to do with himself if we don’t walk him at least 3 times a day. So he’s keeping us on our toes.

We’ve put in a fall garden. I’ve got brussel sprouts, cauliflower, kale, broccoli, red onions, chives, cabbage, lettuce, arugula, swiss chard, kohl rabi, and salad greens. Might try to get in turnips, spinach, rutabaga, and beets but we’ll see. It still feels like beginning August right now, so we might have a chance at a longer growing season, fingers crossed. It’ll be nice when it cools off and the bugs won’t be out so much–I’m picking cabbage loopers off my starts every morning and am also beginning to think I’m too nice by simply picking off the ginormous slugs that eat everything in sight–it’s like they know I just pick them off, so they go tell their slug friends and they all go party on the plants before I can get ahold of them. Geez. Have they no respect.

I’m trying to teach Hunter how to stay out of the garden. It’s kind of catching on. This morning he was outside laying down with his paws hanging over the side of it.

I made about 5 gallons of plum juice tonight. Froze it all. Should’ve thought it through a bit more and made plum wine from it, but there are lots more plums to pick. Italian prune plums, so they’re a purple juice (would make a really good wine I think).

We’ve got lots of applesauce canned already and I ruined a batch of apple butter this weekend by spicing it too much without tasting it. Learned my lesson on that one. Will try again with another crop I just picked last night.

Homemade bread from my favorite artisan bread recipe is rising in the fridge, and I had homemade yogurt this morning for breakfast. I even tried making soy milk from scratch on Sunday. It’s not terrible, but the flavor is stronger than you get in the store. I’ll give it one more shot, but if it doesn’t work out I might just stick to Costco for that one.

Oh! And it’s bow hunting season right now for deer. Evan’s trying for one. Stood in a blind for 3 hours yesterday, nothing crossed his path. Of course, when we took Hunter for a walk last week on one of the logging roads by our house we saw at least 8 deer.

Pictures will come soon. Lots to document. We’re just trying to make this new place a home and take advantage of it all before the rains come and we’re housebound for the next 6 months. Although soups, sweaters, quilting, and warm bread doesn’t sound like a half bad thing either.

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