Our Life Together: Pumpkin Pickin

We had Denises and Denephew out to The Acre to pick out their pumpkins from the patch. Everyone had a great big time.

After the chirruns picked out their pumpkins, we made a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies.

And while we were making cookies, little Katie found she enjoyed home made biscuits and home made applesauce. We had just made a fresh batch of applesauce before everyone arrived. Katie ate one pint and asked to take a second one home.

And while the kids were in the kitchen, we all made a cooking of home made ketchup. We picked what will probably be the last large picking of tomatoes from the garden, and we figured we had enough salsa. We can always use some more ketchup.

Henry found that he loved the home made apple jelly. We tried to get Katie to try some on her biscuit, but that didn't work out at all. Henry was more than willing to try the jelly, and took the jar home with him. We understand there are plans for an apple jelly sandwich in his school lunch.

Prior to all the Sunday goings on, we had usual stuff going on around The Acre. First off we picked a watermelon and diced it up. We snacked on that all week. We don't know why everyone doesn't grow their own watermelons.

We made our first potroast this week. We went to the garden for the fresh ingredients.

We dug carrots and blue potatoes, a few jalapeno peppers and some onions to slow cook in cast iron. We're ready for fall. And speaking of fall, Cupcake did quite a bit of decorating this week. We cut down the gem corn stalks and made decorations out of them. We picked a couple of pumpkins and placed in strategic locations.

We have had an old milk container that we've been meaning to put to use, we got around to bringing it out and getting it ready for the front porch.

And decorations seemed to be the theme this week. We posted a picture last week of a pumpkin in the whiskey barrel. This week the chickens decided to carve it out and make it their own. We can only assume it's supposed to be a Deathstar from Star Wars?

The only other option we can come up with is they were eating the pumpkin. But if that's the case, we will be having fresh wings, so we're going with Deathstar.
We did chop up a fresh pumpkin and made our first pie of the season.

We also picked a fresh mess of collards for dinner one night. Collards were a big hit with our family physician, so we're going to keep them in the rotation.