I started thinking about some fall wardrobe things, but I quickly came to realize that my time is better spent right now working on preserving our garden produce.
My husband is the family gardener, and despite very limited gardening time this year, he has gotten good yields of beans, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and onions. Earlier in the summer, we had broccoli and cabbage, also.
With the first frost of the year coming, he got in as much as he could, and I've been working on it cleaning and storing it.
We have a chest freezer now, so I have been freezing some things. We also have a canner, but I don't yet feel free enough from urgent interruptions to devote my attention to a canning session.
We were given permission to pick apples in someone's yard, and got close to three bushels from that. I don't know the apple variety, but they do not keep well at all, so I made applesauce and juice from them all, the next day. I figured out a workflow where I peeled apples with the crank apple peeler/corer/slicer, put the peeled slices in the applesauce pot, and ran the end slices (which the peeler misses) through our juicer.
Someone also gave us a pumpkin, and several acorn squash.
The children have helped here and there, without arm-twisting. They've picked and shelled beans, picked peppers, and helped core apples.
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