Thursday, August 22, 2013

Beans, Beans and More Beans

It's August 22nd already!!

I must be getting older, because time is really going much quicker than when I was 20.

The students are coming back, and I feel like they just said good bye.  The War of the Worlds, ie the road work on East Main Street, continues with bangs and bells and whistles, flag women and men on big machinery.  We had a Kentucky wedding and a benefit for the Children's Museum.  Astrid and Gurli died this spring.  Two of my original chickens named after my grandmother and her cousin.  Gurli received 4 paracentesis's and lived for an additional 3 months.   And we enjoyed a week away on Long Island.

And we planted a garden. 

And now we have beans!

It's funny how different years produce different bumper crops.  This year it's beans, green peppers, eggplant, peas and beets.  Our tomatoes got late blight and so we have a very limited crop of heirloom tomatoes this summer.  Last year we were roasting tomatoes almost everyday, making pasta sauce and filling the freezer for the entire year.  I'll have to break down and buy my paste tomatoes from the Amish this year.

But for now, we are having beans at almost every dinner.  I've discovered a lot of new recipies.  Some we have made repeatedly and other were put directly into the trash.  The same with my eggplant.  Who knew that there were so many different recipes which used eggplant.

We've cleaned out the barn attic, made a stone path from 42 to 44 so I don't break my arm again this year, painted the bedrooms at 42, put in new water and sewer pipes in 44, and entertained many guests at Litengard on the Lake!

It was a busy summer and it went fast.