Friday, September 17, 2010

When we first came out here it was barely Summer, now Fall is definitely in the air. Mornings are chilly enough to warrant a small fire in the wood stove. We have harvested apples from some of our trees, and I made a large pot of applesauce last week. Most of the apple trees on our property are in bad need of pruning, a job we will do this Winter when they are dormant. We may attempt to harvest the rest of the  apples anyhow and take them to a business that has a cider press. We would like to attempt to make some hard cider.

We bought 50 lbs of potatoes from a local stand on the way to Presque Isle earlier in the week and enjoyed a few of them baked last night topped off with local fresh churned butter. At the same stand we bought some Maine produced pepper jack cheese, and more apples. I canned 13 quarts of apple pie filling this week.We made a pie with the one jar that didn't seal today and it was delicious.

Kevin completed the hearth wall that he built and tiled. It looks beautiful. Kevin has really become well skilled in home repairs. Last night Jay accidentally broke his window forcing it shut. Kevin measured the windows this morning and with a brief look at our rehab book figured out how to fix it. He also repaired the two storm windows that were broken.

Tomorrow, as a family we are going to the agricultural museum , it is open for tours and there is a roast pork supper in the evening. We have been told by several people that the museum is a worthy destination if we got a chance to tour it.

I finally got set up on Skype and talked to Sarah, Ben and the grandchildren on it. I didn't have a camera on the computer but it was cute seeing them. I purchased a web cam and hooked it up so next time we will all see each other. 

Plans for the oncoming week include painting our bedroom and the staircase. I bought Glowz paint for the stairs. I figured it would be cool to see the stairs glow in the dark. Adam wants to paint the attic door that opens into his room with the paint too. Kind of a ghost buster effect. I also need to reorganize the bathroom, whenever the boys get towels, they mess up the stack and clean towels end up on the floor. I am going to solve the problem by emptying the drawers and putting the clean towels in them. I guess the things from the drawers can go into bins in the closet. I have plenty of bins.

Thomas and Rose will be out next weekend and it is also our anniversary. We haven't seen Thomas for about two years so we are very excited to have him here and to get a chance to finally meet Rose.