Long weekends always throw me for a loop.  Today will be my Monday at the shop.  That means anything I plan to get done there must be accomplished today since I don't work tomorrow due to the Farmer's Market.  It always seems a little frantic to me, but I am hoping for a quiet day there.

We spent the weekends starting or accomplishing tasks that need to be finished before the snow flies.  Sunday we went to the woods and got a nice load of firewood.  My daughter had taken her motorbike along to get some riding in.  She bought herself a little 125 for a college graduation gift.  They dropped me off at my friend Sarah's and I convinced her that she and I needed to go up behind them so she could get a load of wood too.  We finished a couple of things at her place and then headed up.  It's quite a ways from her house, but a fun drive up the mountain.  We stopped and she showed me some teepee rings.  It's pretty amazing to walk among them and imagine what their lives must have been like back then.  The fire pit was always in the middle, of course, and their entry was always facing east.  You can see the break in the rocks where the entry was.  As you look along that site, there are several rings all in a row.  They winter camped there along the creek.  We discussed their diets and how they had little variety.  She showed me another spot up the road where they camped too.  It's all very fascinating to think about.

So we got up there, got her a nice load of wood and then headed back to her house to put up some corn.  She steamed it and then we cut it off the cob.  We didn't quite get it all finished when the family arrived to pick me up.  Just as we were heading home, our son, Kelly called to tell us he was making supper.  That set well with everyone because they were starving (and crabby because they hadn't eaten!)  It was nice to come home to dinner all made.  He made tacos and had the full spread!  There was every condiment you could possibly want to put on them!

I was so tired I was in bed at 8:30.  I read for 30 minutes and was off to sleep!

Monday was spent in the garden.  I was stalling in the morning for a while, but decided it needed to get done.  I picked 40 ears of corn and a rubbermaid full of beans.  I then came back in to process the corn.  Those 40 ears gave me 6 bags of corn with 3 cups in each bag. 

 We have not had a freeze here yet, so everything is still producing.  I thought since I had help we'd better get most of the stuff picked.  Everyone was out there picking and hauling.  The biggest surprise were the pumpkins!  I had just let them do their thing and not paid much attention.  I was pleasantly surprised to see how many and how big some of them were.  That was fun!

We all headed back to the house and started supper and processing more corn!  We wound up with 22 bags total.  It's nice to see that in the freezer.  My FIL took home 1 rubbermaid full of beans and I have one to do.  I am hoping to sit and do that at the shop today!  I have to go back to work to rest!

The supper menu was:

Walleye  - caught mostly by my daughter at the lake Saturday!

Oven fried red potatoes

Lettuce salad & Sungold tomatoes

Cucumber salad

Just picked corn on the cob, all from the garden!

Homemade raspberry ice cream with Sarah's cream!