little sparrow mountain

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.