RAIN!

Well, I woke up to a wet deck!  We got a bit of rain early this a.m.  Bill and the Boys are trying to get their crops in and this rain won't help.  I doubt if our harvest is even half over, I'm sure they still have another month.  The rice is still green and the Organics are not ready either.

My Farmers Market was really slow this Monday.  I think next year we will finish the end of October and not run until the end of November.  Since the planting season started so late due to cool weather in the Spring, I felt it was only helpful to add a couple months for the vendors...but it's getting cold and people just aren't coming out to the Market.  Live and Learn.

My kitchen is a total disaster at the moment, I should not be on this computer! I bought my last lug of green beans from my favorite veggie vendor and ordered one last lug of processing tomatoes.  I'm almost finished canning the green beans, still have 1/2 a box of apples and about a gallon of tomatoes from my garden.  We ran out of bread and I had to quickly bake a loaf and that mess is still in the sink.  I need to throw some short ribs in the crock pot with a bit of BBQ sauce for tonight's dinner.  I have a meeting at Noon, pick up Lynda from school, pick up chicken feed, odds and ends for my worm bins, 2X4's for my new shed, pick up Leah and Vincent from their school and I need to get 128 cinder block for 2 more garden beds...oh and a bit more pvc pipe for making hoops for the skinny beds to keep the little chickens out.  The kids and I also need to pick some Organic Watermelon, cantaloupe, butternut squash and Cinderella pumpkins for the produce stand in front of the house....I need a clone!

I finally fixed some sugar syrup for the bees and fed them.  I gave them a protein patty and the sugar syrup with Bee Pro in it...a holistic approach to bee health.  I won't be extracting the top super of honey, I'll leave that for them to eat this winter.  I will split the 4 deep supers in the Spring into 4 new hives.  Hopefully I'll have the whole winter to build/get more hives.  Next year I'd like to have each *set-up* contain a bottom deep super and then the shallow supers on the top...3 to 4 each...lots of work for me this winter to ensure lots of honey next summer!