I’m starting to freeze okra and peppers. The regular bell peppers have just gotten going, after a summer of lush and gorgeous foliage, but very little fruit, but the paprika peppers have done amazingly well. We’ve yet to have one turn red, but we’ve been enjoying them green.

Inside I’m canning tomatoes today, and making yoghurt, which is pretty much the only dairy product (besides butter) that I’m making.

It’s still hot—90-ish during the day—but it’s cooling off so much at night, and the humidity is so low that it really feels like fall. It’s glorious!

Thanks so much!

Our friends from central Florida were here for ten days, leaving yesterday. It is so hard to see them go. We’ve known them since ED was two, and we see them once a year at most.  Maybe this will be the year we can get the farm settled enough to go visit them in January!

While they were here DH and Bill started an exciting project: building a stone hearth for the little Jotul heat stove. DH had promised to have it installed last year before the first frost…maybe it will be in this year before frost!

Also this last week, ED turned nineteen. She’s wonderful.

But really—nineteen years?