//if you watch a river long enough,you'll see your own body float by.//

probably doing another batch of tomato sauce today...

kitchen table has changed so much!

holes dug for new porch/cat graves.

going to finish sewing the backpatch on my sweatshirt today...should i start sewing the sweatshirt that was cut off of me, back together? it's become more of a joke than anything,but it would be HILARIOUS if i was wearing a sweatshirt that the emts had to cut off of me. even more hilarious would be if i were wearing the pants...

i think planting the fruit orchard is going to happen today! peach and pear trees are all we have so far,but we'll see what happens.

pumpkin carving may also be happening.
it's time to get all halloween-y!

last night i made apple butter. it was time-consuming/totally boring. it's really a good reason to have canning parties. i could have really used some people to hang out with/talk to/entertain me while i had to continuously stir it.

stan ripped our front steps out in preparation for the porch he is going to be starting soon.

possibly some seitan smoking today as we totally have the mequite chips and it's so so nice out.

//everyday goes down in history//

finished bringing in the garden yesterday(yes,it's all in the house).

jake is weighing all of our jalapenos at work,since the only recipe that i have for jalapeno jelly gives weights.

we really should acquire a food scale.

the idea that i had for jam-jar-decorating was flawed,so now my brain will continue to brainstorm...

i keep forgetting that we still have a zillion apples,so probably apple butter will be happening.

oh! made the pumpkin pudding yesterday. it's okaaaaay. it called for brown sugar,which we didn't have,so,as with the cookies that we used to sell for money, we used regular sugar and molasses. it turned out too molasses-y. woops. well,it's probably good for me and my lack-of-iron thing...

pumpkin pie is next! i'm good at pie. wish that i still had the fall-cookie-cutters that mom sent to me in oregon,that got left there. i'll just add it to the tab that i am tallying of all of the stuff that bitch-face owes us that i will never see...man,i think the debates, last night, made me bitter at the world and now it will be part of my day today. SWEET!
EDIT(AND RANT):i was just thinking that it comes off as me just sounding bitter and SAYING that she owes us, but we actually sent her money because she said that she would send a bunch of our stuff that we accidentally left there,which she said that she would do...alas,i don't see almost anything...including jake's bmx bike. hope that whoever has it is appreciating that it's worth a bit of money...actually,i wouldn't be surprised if she sold it. that is now the second time that we have sent someone money to send stuff that we were big retards about leaving places,when we moved and not seen the stuff. i guess the lesson is to fucking stop moving...and that kami and marie are the same person. ugh.

i mean,i'm cold and on my way to actually starting my day.

i like pudding,pudding is good.

ok.
basically everything that is producing in our garden is done/done for.

stan's gonna start our porch and rototil the garden area next week.

i also asked him about the fruit trees that mom bought us and i guess the front yard(the part that is not garden-tastic) will be made into a fruit orchard. yes!

ok. now i will start/continue the jalepeno jam-making,squash soup preparation, seed gathering. the last thing being something else that stan un-confused me about...i guess some of the seeds that mom gifted us with were hybrid seeds,therefore they aren't intended to produce seeds..what?ever.

time for tomato sorting. and sunflower-seed gathering and pumpkin pie/pudding making. i like me some pudding.

//there'll be time enough for countin' when the dealing's done//

big frost last night...
gonna try to bring in everything from the garden that is left(yes,i know that i should have done it yesterday...)

there are still a ton of tomatoes and acorn squashies...

made some salsa yesterday.

saved a an incredibly cute field mouse from death. tony was just carrying it around. when he let it go,you could see her little heart going a mile a minute. i made jake take it into the woods. he said that she seemed more confident with being able to run away and that she probably didn't have an instant mousey heart-attack,like we predicted.

my brain is going a mile-a-minute. so happy that jake has a half-day today...!

pumpkin pie or pumpkin pudding? haven't made the pudding yet,so it's a gamble...
there's also a pumpkin-bread recipe that i want to try...we need more pumpkins!
pumpkinspumpkinspumpkinspumpkins.

//i suggested to him that America teemed with people who were homesick in bittersweet ways//

half a smarty-pants of tomatoes.

there's some blight on a couple of the plants,i dunno what that is about,but it's looking like it's happening to about a quarter of the zillion-too many plants that we have...there's still so many that i hope get ripe before snow happens

brought an acorn squash in. still about 8-10 left...maybe some squash soup in the next week...i could freeze that if it turns out to be an adequate amount.

mom bought us a peach and pear tree, we just have to figure out a time/place to put them in the ground...

had a bonfire 2 nights ago.

still waiting on pumpkins,but i don't really know why.
pie and jack o' lanterns. possibly some pumpkin pudding...

today is such a good day for pumpkin beer. very harvest-y. at least...cold.

still not enough ripe jalapenos for the jelly,but soon.

jake's been talking with some ladies who he works with about having a jam-making/booze/random project-y party and one of the girls wants to do a book-club,too. i hope that he nixed that,like i told him to...so many books to read already.

i feel like i keep repeating myself...time for more projects and less being lazy! too bad tv is so good...

um. gunshots. great. hunting is freaking awesome.

//coin collecting's a lot like life;it stopped being fun a long time ago.//

the apple-pie casserole actually turned out a-okay.

brought in almost all of the herbs and dried them. actually got a lot more than i thought would be there.

it's cold.

there are almost enough jalapenos to make the previously-mentioned jam.

a guy at jake's job keeps bringing him apples from his trees,so i think i'll try my hand at apple-butter this time.

pumpkin pie this week!(not pumpkin casserole.)

in the next couple of days,we're going to bring in the plethora of acorn squash that we grew and make an apple risotto, to be eaten out of acorn squash bowls.


there's also a history of wassail in the last cook-book that mom go us,and it's actually really interesting. i want to have a harvest-a-thon with, among other things, traditional wassail.