Saturday, July 29, 2017

Busy few weeks

My newest rug finish. It is for a new mother. Here theme is deer heads with flowers and colors are mint green and coral. The baby's name is Oakley. 

We have had a busy few weeks. I had a tooth pulled a few weeks ago and wound up being surgery and took almost 2 hours. Sonny had one pulled this past week and took only 30minutes. Tough luck on my part. I got a summer cold right after the tooth bit and it settled in my left ear. I wound up having a burst eardrum over it and had to get some very expensive ear drops but it is all better now. 
We only have one old fashioned antique clematis still blooming. 
Jackmani clematis
The garden has been winding down as well as the fruit. I put up peach jam and put the plums in the freezer to make jam later. I only put up 4 gallons of blueberries and we let family and friends come and pick what they wanted and still had bunches and wound up letting them just drop off. I put up salsa, pickled green beans and roasted bell peppers. We are still having fresh tomatoes and peppers. The rest of the garden is pretty well over and done. We still have apples, pears, muscadine grapes and figs to ripen and put up. I plan to put up some preserves from the figs and pears but will make the apples into applesauce.  Muscadines into jam. Just a few photos.
muscadines

fig tree


apple tree

Will share more later.




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