Many things in the garden have come to an end. Which is ok with me. Its that time of year, time to slow down. The dark sky is coming a little earlier. The evenings are cool. Soon there will be a fire in the fireplace. So I have been canning, a lot! We have had a few rainy days and those have been spent in the kitchen putting up the surplus of veggies. It is so nice to open a jar of salsa or tomato sauce in January that tastes like summer. The ducklings are all grown up, you can barley tell them apart from their mother. I wouldn't mind if they flew away for winter, but I doubt they will. The ducks are really the messiest critters we have to care for. Ray got a new tractor. It has a bucket and all kinds of gadgets, it even has a cab with heat and air conditioning! We have one more cutting of hay to get down, hopefully this week. The sheep are doing well and the shearer is set to come in September. My pumpkins are ready to pick, which is way to early. I am leaving them out in the field hoping they won't rot. But fall is in the air even the crickets have slowed their chatter.
