One of ED’s (enforced) projects lately is drying apples. Bernard is taking a break from her Sungold cherry tomato drying to let ED use the dehydrator. So far she’s got 5 quarts of dried apples, some of which you can see in the previous post of the inside of the root cellar. They are so incredibly good, it’s going to be all we can do to abide by the “no eating the put-up food til after frost” rule.

I’ve noticed a lot of other blogs have photos of yellow sunflower-type flowers, so in the interest of being a part of the cool crowd, I’ve decided to post one of my own. This is a Jerusalem Artichoke flower; I dug up some that I had planted up at the old house, but then, in typical fashion, left them in a bucket all winter. Most were no good by this spring, but one tiny piece of a root survived and turned into an eight foot tall plant outside the bathroom window.