Mo Pumpkin

This week was all over the map here at The Acre. We picked pumpkins, we made salsa, we baked pies. As Bugs Bunny would say "Might as well got to climbing this beanstalk, or we won't have any story".
We noticed a couple of the pumpkin vines had started to die off, so we picked pie pumpkins and a couple giants for decorating. We still have a whole patch full of pumpkins. We may have a problem?

The pie pumpkins we diced and canned. One pumpkin made four quarts, and we figure one quart per pie, we may have all the pumpkin we will need from a single picking. The second smaller one we split and baked. We scooped the pumpkin out and we will make our first pie this week.  We also saved the seeds, because next year we are going to have an even bigger patch. OK, we have a problem.

And one last pumpkin related picture, we must be on the new coffee company e-mail list. We've gotten offers from a half dozen companies this week to try their coffee. This one had pumpkin spice, so we picked up a couple of pounds.

We've been making salsa all week long. Two big batches canned up. Now we're making salsa just to give away.

Some salsa we sent to far away lands this week. We boxed it up and shipped it out. Two boxes went to Kansas, and apparently the person who drove the truck from Roanoke to Kansas didn't like salsa. Both boxes were smashed and the jars inside didn't make the trip.

Still picking stuff from our garden, we had squash again this week.

And our first peaches came in this week.

Our two or three regular readers know we hate to waste anything around The Acre, so this next picture makes us sick. We had way too many yellow cucumbers, so many we couldn't give them away.

The Beamer came to town this week and paid us a visit. He requested we hook him up with a couple of our buttermilk pies. We were honored to think someone drove from Cincinnati to The Acre for pie, but he was also going to some local sporting event.

We hooked him up with some goodies and sent a box of salsa and gem corn to our pal JJ who was also attending the local sporting event. She in return hooked us up with some SC grits and local flavor from her neck of the woods. We dig the barter system.
Speaking of gem corn, Cupcake started her fall decorating this week.

We had one project this week. We noticed the camper had sprung a leak when it rains. Lawman climbed up to check out the roof and found a few cracks. We used a bed liner spray rubber to patch the cracks until we can resurface the whole thing.

We were out and about one day and happened upon a yard sale. We hardly ever stop at yard sales but for some reason we hit this one. Cupcake found two old jars with the swing lids for fifty cents each. Ebay sells the exact same jars for fifty dollars each, so we made out like bandits. I guess it was meant to be that we stopped.

A couple of food related posts. We had a boil Monday, Pop missed the last two boils we did, so we made sure he was going to be around when we did this one. We had enough left over for shrimp cocktails the next afternoon for lunch.

And on Thor's day we made red meat offerings. This is our sirloin steaks we hand cut and treated. We sear the steaks in a cast iron skillet before we grill them.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K