Monthly Archives: October 2012

Pickled Eggs & More Squash

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Tom

  I am really trying to get through the squash I want to save seeds from.  Another 20 pounds of them peeled and sliced filled up all the racks of my dehydrator. Each slice is a quarter inch to three … Continue reading →

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Squash Processing (Baby Vi Squash sp. mochata)

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Tom

I started processing squash which in and of itself is not a big deal, but I have had a couple of requests asking me how I go about it in regards to saving seeds from them.  Honestly, compared to to … Continue reading →

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Apple Butter?

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Tom

Well, I suppose most people, when making something new, would start with a recipe.  In a case like this, perhaps from some spiral bound cookbook put out by a Lutheran church frequented by some long passed relative. Not me.  I … Continue reading →

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One Last Batch Of Tomato Sauce

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Tom

I gleaned more tomatoes from my yard (Gallina pictured above) and I had about a dozen grocery bags with what had been greens taken out of the Minnetonka garden a few weeks ago, which were now ripe (and some spoiling) … Continue reading →

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Another Day Out At Moondance (Homestead) Apple Orchard

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Tom

We went back to Shelia and Jerry’s orchard this last weekend late Sunday afternoon for another bushel of apples. The wind had cleaned a lot of apples off of the trees, and I had to be careful not to lose … Continue reading →

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Tomatoes I Am Still Harvesting

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Tom

We have had three frosts here on the island.  Two nights ago it got down to 26 degrees for a couple of hours.  I felt bad that I had not been up to digging through the prodigious foliage of the … Continue reading →

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Honey Never Spoils

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Tom

  We had some honeycomb in plastic bins left over from last year.  For a while the kids had just been eating it with spoons, but the bins had been put away and forgotten for a bit, and then the … Continue reading →

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Getting Caught Up On Things

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Tom

Operating system and software update is complete.  Here are some of the photos and what we have been doing. The top photo is a mix of green tomatoes, onions and garlic.  I slice and layer them in pans, then salt … Continue reading →

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Thinking About Seeds, Waiting For Software

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Tom

We left the home for one hour yesterday, Patti and I, simply to pick up empty hive flats left out at the Ness farm to have the bees clean the last remnants of honey out of them.  In that hour, … Continue reading →

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No Camera, But Still Doing Things

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Tom

We are bereft of the ability to illustrate the things we are doing.  Temporary, but still annoying.  The Coolpix Nikon camera that I was not particularly thrilled with crapped out after only 7 months of taking photos.  So, cost of … Continue reading →

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