Fall in Ohio

I know there are a lot of pretty places in the world, but it just doesn't get prettier than Ohio in the Fall. Just took these shots of the sun setting and the moon rising. Sorry for the blurry pictures - not my best - but I think it still gets the idea across

I love Fall

We start to prepare for winter

The Harvest is collected

And the fields are put to rest

Flowers start to produce seed

And put out their best colors

I love Fall

I love the way it looks, I love the way if feels, I love the way it smells

Finally Got Him!

I have been trying to get this guys picture for over a year and I finally did it! Saw him feeding on my flowers while I was grinding the tomatoes. They sure are hungry creatures. I fill up my feeder about twice a week now, plus they have all the flowers to go to.

Saucing tomatoes

I took the day off today to make tomato sauce and Carl came over to help. His idea of helping was picking 3 more buckets while I cleaned the 4 buckets Chet had already picked! He did also cut them all up for me. I now have a turkey roaster full of sauce that is cooling, my three large pots are on the stove with more simmering, and I still have more to go. Oh, and those three buckets of tomatoes Carl picked? They are sitting on the front porch waiting their turn.

A Good Investment

Hurricane Ike made it's way through Ohio Sunday afternoon and night. We didn't get much rain, but the wind really blew. Chet and I spent the evening on the porch listening to it howl - and listening to trees crack. There wasn't much else we could do because the lights went out about 6:45pm. Fortunately after we moved here we bought this little baby.

Chet charged her up and I was able clean up from dinner. When we went to bed, we turned it off. Got up a little early Monday morning so we could charge it up again to get the water hot for our showers. I didn't expect to have to go through the process again when I got home from work - but the lights were still out. In fact, it wasn't until I got home on Tuesday that I discovered that the electric had come back on around four - which was a surprise because OH Edison had said that our area would be back on by Sunday evening. This is the longest we've ever had to use the generator - boy am I glad we have it!

This year's steer

This is the steer we bought at the fair. He was raised by Matt Hoover. Last year we bought his sister Meghan's steer, so that work out well. Matt and Meghan have been a big help to us. Meghan has been walking Mom and Dad's dog a couple times a week and Matt has been helping Chet with the garden. Weeding, picking beans and even stacking wood. This is the same Matt who wanted to know how the manure spreader worked. They are real good kids and we thank them for all they have done.