Fall Chores & a Beautiful Autumn Walk!

Fall is here and we are keeping busy preparing for the winter months. I feel like there is a lot to do!  

Here is what we are doing in the greenhouse:

Granddaughter helped me spray paint some milk jugs and fill them with water for solar heating.   We finished 4 but I would like to do a lot more. People need to drink more milk around here!

We will see how much this helps...  I've done this before but not to the extend I want to do it this time.

I picked lettuce for the week out of the green stalks.  After watching a video a light bulb went off and I realized my green stalks were too close to the greenhouse door -so basically when you open the door you would be immediately giving them a blast of cold air.  So I rearranged everything and moved them a little further away from the door, more in the middle of the row.

In the garden:  I hope to plant the garlic and tulips this week.  I will also be pulling up the tomato cages after the frost we are expecting.  It's easier when the tomato foliage is dead to get the cages out of the soil.

I feel like I'm running out of time before the snow falls so I'm going to get busy!  

It gets dark at night so early now so I've been back to crocheting or sewing.  I'm crocheting a hat and scarf for donation and last night I completed the scarf.

On one of the warmer days this past week we went for a our local nature preserve.   We saw a couple of turkeys, ducks, and lots of squirrels.  It was a beautiful Autumn walk through the fallen leaves. Thank goodness they have lots of benches because I used every single one we came across!   

Today they are calling for an all day rain so we are planning on walking at a church that has a indoor track (they have benches too).  There is a way!

Besides great how to You tube videos I've become addicted to the stories that are told.  This week my favorite story has been: 

His Own Children Had No Room for Him — So He Knocked on His Daughter in Law's Door!

I was also sent a book from Leslie Gould to review!  Just the cover alone makes me want to dive right in!  

A Second Chance to Remember (Letters from Lancaster County): A Sweet Amish Second-Chance Contemporary Romance Set in Lancaster County

Hope everything is going well at your house.  Have a great day!  

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Frost Is Just Around the Corner & Amish shopping!

 With the threat of frost just around the corner (next Tuesday night) I've been picking my green tomatoes and wrapping them in newspaper.  

Checking them often, we are then able to use them as they slowly  ripen.

Our trip into some Amish country

We stopped at a farm and bought watermelon for $4.50 and a big cabbage for $ 3.00.   The thing about Michigan watermelons is that they come in late and it's already getting cooler.  They are delicious though!

Then we stopped at Country View next and bought some great deals with apples being our #1 thing we wanted.

We bought a half bushel of Gala apples for $12.00.  We have already eaten quite a few out of this bag.

We were detoured by road construction and found a Amish bakery that we had never been to before.  They had wonderful sourdough bread and donuts for a great price.  We told her how we just happened upon her bakery and she gave us this map of all the Amish businesses!  This is really helpful and we wish we had it years ago.

Hope everything is going well at your house.  Have a great day!  

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Gardening, Sewing, and Exercise!

I can feel Fall coming on...well I started feeling it about a month ago. With the help of my granddaughter we brought my herbs in to the greenhouse and planted them into one of the green stalks I have.

I started growing lettuce in another green stalk too...I miss lettuce and I'm not ready to trust it from the store quite yet.

Some of the thyme, rosemary, and sage was propagated before I put them in the green stalk.   I'm trying to make a go of propagating lavender.  So far no luck with that one.  Gardening is one big experiment. Not everything works but I'm not done trying! 

Okay, like I have made a schedule for myself...one day exercise and the next day some sort of sewing.  I made covers for my couch pillows this past week with some material I found at a estate sale awhile back ..today is the exercise day  sigh..

Does going shopping at the Amish store count as walking...seems like it would.  We are going there today.  I'm thinking about counting it. Would that be cheating?  Maybe I should walk down the block or do a you tube video.  

I'll show you what I bought next week.  

Have a great weekend.

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Frankenmuth Auto Fest, Apple Pie Jam, and The Missing Car Ride!

 

We went to the Frankenmuth Auto Fest this past weekend and we had a great time.   As we were leaving,  Auto Value gave us all this free stuff, tshirts, hats, umbrellas, tire gauges, two gallons of rain x windshield washer fluid plus more!  It's too much to list!  So fun!

Hint:   Sunday's are half off admission and booths are ready to close down.  Good time to go!  

It's good to take a break from work around the home but I knew I needed to get busy on Wednesday and do something with the apples husband bought a couple of weeks ago.  This apple peeler corer makes my life so much easier in the Fall.

In just a few minutes I had enough apples to make 5 pints apple pie jam.  The chickens loved the peelings.

The days have grown shorter and the gas is much higher so our rides in the car have now gone down to 1 instead of 2 a day.  Usually in the morning it's all the errands and the evening one was for pleasure. So now we just have one a day so we make sure we go around the block.  The temp is about 60 degrees in the morning and goes down below that at night so it's about too cool for a bike ride but we might try it soon.  Frost is just around the corner.

 

 As of the last time we went out gas was $4.99 a gallon on average here well except for the new Amoco gas station just down the road  who has a little lower gas price. Hey, we got some.  How much is it in your area?

That's all I have for this week...I hope you are having a good week.

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