What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Thanks for pointing me to the Ball Canning website, Wee Farmer Sarah. I'll check it out! I wonder how many green tomatoes we'll have once they are all finished growing for the season. Today is going to be near 90 degrees once the humidity is figured in, so even though I don't like the weather, I'm sure the tomatoes will.
Hubs just got through chopping up a bunch of our home-grown garlic, and he put it in a jar with olive oil (just like the stuff you buy in the grocery store). I'm going to love that - so handy when you're cooking not to have to stop and chop garlic!
When I was pulling rhubarb stalks last spring, I somehow accidentally pulled out a small leaf and a little bit of the crown with one single piece of root attached, so I planted it in a pot to see if by chance it would grow. To my surprise, it did! So now I have a small little rhubarb plant still growing in the pot, which I need to get planted in the ground so it has time to get established a bit before the cold weather sets in. One can never have too much rhubarb!

Happy to point you to the website. I checked and that recipe is there. I finished the trim painting on 3 of the windows only one to go. It is so much brighter in that room now. I’m sitting with my chickens right now and no sign of any raptors yet. Perhaps this will be uneventful.

 

[WthrLady]

Need to pick the tomatoes. While I was out there I noticed two broken bolts on the windmill! OMG The main shaft is holding it all on, and I can't repair the bolts on the top until the wind (35mph) dies down. UGH. DH will bring home longer bolts tonight.

Good grief. It's always something.

Another 30 giant apples in the dehydrator. Didn't even make a dent in my apple piles. UGH.

Finished all the pillowcases though.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Can I ask what you make on pillow cases @WthrLady

 

[WthrLady]

What I make on them? Or what I make them for?

I sell them on my etsy.com shop. Nicer than ones that come with your sheet sets and prettier too. I know people use them in kids rooms, hospital/care home beds, special tooth fairy night pillows for kids or for when kids are feeling ill/blue.

 

[WthrLady]

Thanks penny !

It started when I needed 4 more pillowcases for my own bed several years ago and the color had been discontinued.

 

[pennyJo1960]

See I make them for us was why I was asking I was told to elevate my right arm as help for my neck I use flannel sheets but like a basic fabric on it

 

[WthrLady]

I hear ya. I sleep in a pillow nest myself! LOL.

 

[chickmom3941]

Very nice pillowcases, WthrLady! I especially like the one with the chickens on it.

 

[WthrLady]

Lol. Ya that one is crazy popular.

 

[karenerwin]

Well I finished caning the tomatoes, but not the plum tomatoes. Trying to decide between more salsa, canned tomatoes, tomato paste or something else.
I picked more cherry tomatoes and just a few green beans. The bugs are starting to win the war over green beans. They are small black things with a light gray on them and they seem to suck the green bean dry. The bean turns yellow and gets flat.

Did not get to the mums or the apples either. Had fun at the baseball game even though we lost. Followed it up with a stop at Ted Drewes for some frozen custard!