Pumpkin Conversion

I had a grocery bag full of corncobs with some kernels still attached, another of bean husks, and a half dozen pumpkins, some carved, some not, that had been sitting frozen on ours and our neighbor’s doorsteps until things thawed out today.

My friend Frank, who I do the Minnetonka garden with, is laid up after having what seems like half of his spine fused, and will be laid up for some months while it heals, so we combined hauling the corn, bean husks, and pumpkins to the chickens, with stopping by with a load of squash, venison trimmed and cut for stew, and a quart of home made cream of chicken and wild rice soup.  Frank was sleeping off painkillers, but got to see his wife Kathy, she got to see the baby, and hopefully Frank will be up to another summer of tomatoes and peppers next year.  Hopefully I will be as well.  This next Tuesday they stick another needle into my spine, in a slightly different place, and they are hoping (as am I) for far better results than the last one gave me.

In the meantime the chickens were a bit freaked out at first to have Patti drop a hundred pounds of large squashes into the coop (my contribution was splitting them open with a knife), but after about 2 minutes they realized that they were full of squash seeds, which I guess are a treat to them.  It will take them a while to finish all of it off, but in the end it is converted to eggs, meat, and fertilizer.

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