It has been a very busy 2 weeks. I had cataract surgery in the other eye a week ago and then the rest of the week was crazy busy. Put up tomatoes and made peach jam.
I was so blessed with the Daughter-in-Love Jackie bringing me not one box but 2 big boxes of tomatoes from the tomato farm down south. These are Arkansas pink tomatoes. They are not near as acidic as most.
I managed to put up 43 pints of salsa and even saved a few to eat.
This has been an awful year for gardening of any kind...just too wet and cool. Our tomatoes have not done well at all. We will get a few to eat along the way but not much to put up.
As for the peaches and plums. I did put down 3 gallons of pulp of plums to later make into jam. Three of our peach trees were stripped by the squirrels so we declared war on them. We managed to get enough off another tree to make about 19 pints of peach jam. The other 2 trees are late ripening and now they seem to be rotting on the tree. Hopefully I can get enough to make 36 more pints. This was to be my Christmas presents this year.
We have been picking blueberries about every other day and put up about 10 quarts in the freezer.
We will hopefully have apples and pears. One of the pears has been dying off some as well so not sure what is going on. It was supposed to be an Asian pear which is blight resistant but it looks more like a Bradley which is bad to get blight. Our Arkansas black apple tree is strange as well. It has very few leaves but it does have fruit..we will see.
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Another 2 baby quilt linework tops.
These 2 are blue puppies.
I have 2 more finished sets in the embroidery but haven't put them together into tops. I'm also still working on the wedding ring quilt top and the sunflower quilt top. These 2 will go to the long-arm quilt shop to be quilted.
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I have been gathering things for my Daugher-in-Love's yard sale and came across a bin filled with old hand dyed chenille bedspreads. I plan to use them for the baby quilt backings.
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I have a few old photos I have wanted to share. This first one is a picture of Sonny's grandparents old home place in the delta area. They were rice farmers.
The house is long gone but the trees still stand.
This next picture is of what is called the "Hog Trail". The University of Arkansas's mascot is a Razorback. It was also my high school mascot and so there is a road in north west Arkansas that is named this.
It is not a real easy drive but fun if you take your time.
And then there is a place in north Arkansas called Hawks bill crag. My sister is wanting her ashes dropped here when she dies. I told her she would have to get someone else to do it as I don't plan to attempt it myself. In fact a woman did fall off here last year to her death.
And last this is the Little Missouri falls. The Little Missouri River heads up near where I live and these are some low water falls near us. It is fun to play in them but they really aren't big at all. Just a fun place to visit.
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And as always....
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