And the Harvest Continues...

Next year I will be sure to plant some pumpkins later too...these will be good for eating - I plan to bake, scrape, puree and freeze - but I am not sure if we'll have any around Halloween time for Jack-O- Lanterns! After hubby got home he brought 4 more up to the house. I'll salt and bake seeds too. And keep some seeds too. Especially from that perfect gorgeous one!

Tons and tons of peppers...cherry peppers, mild jalapenos, bells. I just put 13 quarts to brine overnight and will can them tomorrow. Then I am going to make stuffed peppers. Lots of stuffed peppers. After hubby got home he also picked a huge amount of hot peppers. I stick to the mild ones. He deals with the hot ones. All the peppers in these pics are mild.

Butternut squash. First year growing it...and excited to eat it! Next year I will plant less zucchini and more Butternut and some acorn too.

A Zucchini about as big as my baby! Those suckers sure do get out of control fast! These biggies are not going to waste...we have been grating them up and feeding them to the ducks! They love them!

More peppers....and a few tomatoes! My hubby got me all excited...he said there really are a lot of tomatoes down there...more than you think. Ummm, one Wal-mart bag full honey? One? From 55 plants? Last year I only had a fraction of the amount of plants and had laundry baskets full of maters! Oh well...we'll make some salsa and life goes on.

And more zucchini...and see that blue dutch oven? That is the cutie I got for my birthday!

And the Guineas....have yet to be ordered. I still have reservations. We have a ton of toads everywhere and apparently they will eat them too. That bugged me a bit, I like the toads everywhere! Hubby didn't think it was any big deal and said "Order them!". :) LOL We did talk about where we'd build them a house and how we would go about raising them. I imagine before too long we'll have some new babies around the house.

The Dirty Divas? Doing awesome! I need to take pics...hubby built them 3 nest boxes. No eggs, yet. I imagine later this month or early next. They fly, which they have been doing for a while now, but they don't fly out of their play yard, which really surprises me because they are right close to the creek, and as much as they love water, one would think they'd just fly down there and fly back up in the evening. They just fly into their pool, or out of their pool, or across their yard. But not out of it. Not so far anyway! And I am a little amazed that we still have all of the original 16. I thought for sure we'd lose a couple to illness or predators or small children...but nope, so far so good!