Labor Week

This past Monday was "Labor day," and we sure did a bunch of labor. We picked a few pears and peaches, then grapes. And while we were making jelly out of all that fruit, we decided we didn't have enough going on at one time, so we canned up the kraut we had fermenting.

We made 14 quarts of kraut, six jars of grape jelly, 24 jars of pear and peach jelly and then we canned 15 jars each diced pears and diced peaches.

Later in the week, we had six bags of pork belly curing in the fridge, so we smoked it over fresh cut maple wood and sliced it up for breakfast bacon. We don't understand why everyone wouldnt make their own bacon.

And the pond progress is coming along nicely. We have our first live critter living in the ponds, a bull frog.

We still haven't had any luck getting the ducks down to the pond, but it gives Lawman something to do during the day.
We changed things up this week and ended it with baked spaghetti.
K&K