After the deluge of rain for 10 days, we've been blessed by warm, sunny days with little wind. Just what the garden needs - especially our dear tomatoes that we are trying to save from water, slug & bug damage. Things are looking up. We feel especially fortunate to have a garden at all while farmers in southern Wisconsin and Minnesota watched their crops perish under drought in July and floods in August.
The storms knocked a load of apples off the trees, so we've been enjoying batches of fresh warm, pink applesauce, courtesy of Charis & our trusty food mill. The apples on the big tree (a Macintosh, we think - not the one pictured above) are eating-ready and it's hard to believe that cider season is already upon us! Pumpkins and hard squash are ripening on the vines, so the boys will have some jack-o-lanterns this year.
I made sauce out of the plums and it turned out beautiful and tasty but TART. Even after adding generous amounts of brown sugar. Still good on waffles. Last night we devoured zucchini pizza - an excellent recipe from the brown Moosewood cookbook - and a great garden dinner.
We have scheduled the window installation (by our good neighbor Tim) for the end of September, and are debating the challenge of moving our desired wood cookstove into the house since it measures 2 inches wider than any of our doorways. It just might push us into some structural changes a little sooner than planned, but we're anxious to order the stove, so it's a good impetus to get moving. Challenge #2 will be actually hauling the 800 pound stove out of the truck, up the deck stairs, and into the house. A good excuse to have a little party for the neighbors and enlist their brute strength.
September brings many trips, visits from good friends and celebrations, including Ellis's 2 year birthday. I know I sound old when I say it, but my, how time flies.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Welcome, September
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new windows... we are green with envy over here. hey, could you get the wood stove through a hole where a new window will be installed? i got a couch into a second story room like this once (after loading it on top of a school bus-- long story). but it just might work!
Blair - you are right on our wavelength! Yes, we're actually planning to replace a small window looking out on the deck with french doors, so we'll have a wide open hole through which to move the stove. Problem is yet another interior door it has to go through to the kitchen. We hope to widen that doorway a bit and open up the top half into an interior "window" of sorts. So, it's possible, just maybe not without a little saws-all action. I'm curious about the couch on the bus...that brings to mind the fact that we have to get the stove in the truck to get it to the house...oh my, it will be an adventure.
ah yeah, everybody loves the saws-all! one of my husbands greatest memories of amutuer (sp?) construction involved a kitchen and a saws-all.
as for the bus, it was not my idea but it was pure genious. where i used to live in alaska there was this old, old farmhouse with a narrow, 90 degree angle staircase. no way jose for that couch getting up it. so, being a school, there were many a school bus with big metal racks on top. the couch got hoisted up, the bus got backed up to the window and voila... one upstairs couch. genious.
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