little sparrow mountain

Meanwhile I started a wreath.

Bill cut the tree and got it standing straight.

Its snowing

English muffins, right off the frying pan with butter oh my!

While out hunting out back for our Christmas tree I found some of this moss. If the weather stays this WARM I might find enough for a wreath. I am thinking some cedar and pinecones too! Maybe a big red bow.

Turkey soup with homemade noodles and fresh bread tonight.....mmmm good! We had a warm family Thanksgiving this year just myself, Bill, Chelsea, Nic & Haven. Loads of food and baby stuff spread all over the house.

Out getting wood today this deer came very close.

Lately our bread of choice.

Bill's delicious english muffins

Bills new batch of "Billy Blonde Ale'' Bill has been making beer for more than 25 years. Billy Blonde Ale is his own recipe that he has been working on for more than 15 years. Bill has made over 100 different types of beer and after all these years this ale is one of his absolute favorites.  He also makes wine and hard cider!

Our snow is already melting. We had 8.5 inches here yesterday. by Monday it will most likely be gone! The first snow is always the prettiest.

Bill's stash of dried peppers.....farmstand since the deer got most of ours.

Haven ,almost 7 months ,amazing how time slips by.

Here is my recipe for crockpot applesauce 25 small apples peeled and cored 1/2 cup brown sugar 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1/4 cup water 1teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamon 1/4 teaspoon ginger 1/4 teaspoon of cloves Put the first four items in the crockpot and mix well. Add spices and mix well. (About 4 hours in I taste check to see if it needs any extra sugar or spices). Cover and cook on low 8 hours. Thats it. Enjoy hot with ice cream Applesauce freezes very well! BTW this applsauce is a bit darker than you may be used to because of the brown sugar /cinnamon mix!

I am obsessed with the (regular sugar pumpkin on top) PUMPKIN  *  ROUGE  VIF  D 'ETAMPES *  HEIRLOOM SEEDS 2012 I love them and have never been able to grow them so I just buy a few every year. The middle one is really Haven's.

to brilliant orange today

Over the past 3 days the leave have changed dramatically!

I almost tossed it again this year but thought I would add a few things then see how bad it looked......Looked OK so put it up one more time!

Last thing to do today is changing the late summer to the Halloween flags

My usual Farm stands are family owned Betty &MaryJo Potett Betty's is more veggies & fruit and sale flowers. MaryJo's more specialty flowers. In September Betty puts all plants on sale.......88cents for Mums is excellent....they are blooming now.

The blackberry bush has great color

So now that the gardening is over and I am looking around the house seeing all the things I have neglected(like the dusting) I started rearranging and then decided to put out the Halloween stuff before Halloween gets here. Out to the garage for the big orange bin....dig through that and realized I have more Halloween stuff somewhere.

Just a few things for Halloween

I have no idea what type of bush this is. It is always some of the best fall color on the place.

Last pic tonight...virginia creeper

The six sister Pinterest recipe was very easy to make.....a canned pantry sort of deal but pretty good!

Thanks to one of the Stampin Latte Ladies...I have aloe again!  I do use it for burns. I hope it does well indoors.

Our local market had a great deal for canning so this year we took advantage of it. We got pears, peaches and tomatoes ( since the deer obliterated ours).

I am still picking little patches of tomatoes. I have mainly given these to the chickens since the skins are a bit tough. They love to play soccer with them.

I cannot wait to taste these! They smell great too.

We got 80 lbs of tomatoes. Bill has over last last 2 days made paste, sauce and diced tomatoes.  Bless his heart, all that peeling and dicing in front of the stove for 2 full days!

The stove is a mess and the tomatoes are not quite done yet....canning continues.

They look so pretty huh?

Bill has been drying pepper and lots of herbs

The bees are going nuts for these right now. They must be sweet

tomorrow is OCT 1....granted I have these near some warm rocks but usually these are gone by now.

My maples have not turned yet nor my burning bushes. The first trees always seem to be the yellow ones. The Mountain ash is pretty and the berries are super red  which sometimes indicates a snowy winter.

I bought a bunch and they are doing well. One of our little sugar pumpkins. We decided to use them for decoration instead of cooking them.

Well this is a first I still have nasturtiums. It has been so warm and just a couple of frosts so I trimmed them and they have bounced back

it's rather spooky at night

One of my favorite things in the woods......Moss.

there are not many this year....not enough to make tea. They are so pretty though aren't they?

twilight which is coming earlier every day now. I love the change in color but not the change in light and time.

usually it is the mountain ash

Loads of this too.....

I spread these every year. I would love to have them everywhere!

Sweet william seed

Went out to check the pumpkins and found 5 huge zucchini. Looks like zucchini bread and relish are on the way.