Goodbye September

This weekend we say "Goodbye" to September. There is a nip in the air and all the trees are changing colors, much earlier this year than last. We're OK with that too. Fall is our kind of time. We had a pretty eventful weekend as well. We started out at a birthday party for our niece and nephew who are turning six this week. Nothing like a group of excited kids to get you going. There is hope for the nation's youth, while the children were at the table eating, we heard such things as "No thank you" and "May I be excused?"

 After a snack, came time for blowing out the candles

 Then it was time to open some presents

After the family outing, it was back to The Acre. Every weekend we think we're done canning, and every weekend we can something. This weekend was another batch of greens. We picked one bushel basket full, which made another six quarts for the pantry.

 It was a team effort until Cupcake came across this little fellow, then I finished picking.

For an action photo, we snapped a shot of Fraidy Mutt in action. Every Saturday the first six pancakes are for the dog. Rather than just feed them to her, we toss them like a Frisbee, she catches them, which is about as close to exercise she gets. Plus it's fun to watch

We had a rather big event Sunday morning. Our recently hatched chickens have been showing signs of preparing to lay eggs. They have started coming to the coop, it seemed like they knew they had to but didn't know why. Today we got our first egg from them. It's a real blast to go from hatching eggs to raising chicks, to getting eggs from them. We are officially chicken farmers now.

Since it was a slow weekend in the way of winter prep, we decided to have a few treats. Our first treat was roasted chestnuts. We took a bit of advice from our loyal reader from "Kniskern's  Knoll" and poked a small hole in each nut before roasting.

Our next treat was a little home made snack mix, this one is mostly for the children, but we help get rid of it.

Our last treat was home made caramel. We eat it with apples, so it's not only good, it's good for you.

And of course we end our weekend with "Chicken wing Sunday". Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend as much as we did.
K&K