It's ON! And everything all at once!
The corn is ready. Got my first bigger sized tomato from the garden (had been getting cherry tomatoes for awhile now). Cukes are getting picked daily. Dug the rest of my potatoes. Gotta go pick so many gallons of grapes from my neighbor's vine tomorrow (nobody wanted them, they were his grandma's, Concord...so he offered them to me!) The peaches will be ripe here in a couple of days too. Oh, and I got my first eggs from my EEs!
They are a nice teal blue.
Love my girls!
I've been up late canning my small potatoes.
I wanted to start canning MUCH earlier today, but it would figure I go and drop the lid to my canner and the cardboard circle inside the dial guage looked bent, so I worried that it would be off. So I had to run down to the ag ext office and have them test it. It was ok, thank goodness. Now would NOT be a good time to have to wait on ordering another guage through the mail.
Then I figured I'd swing by the farm and give the horse a little grain. He was lying down in the field and not acting quite right, but he did get up and drink some water and I walked him for awhile and he seemed ok after a bit, so I don't know if he had colic or what. I've got to go back out in the morning and check up on him again just in case. But that set me back for time. Then the kids were nuts all evening, so I figured it would be easier to watch the canner after they went to bed.
Here's a bit of what my DD6 helped me pick the other day. It has rained the past 3 days (and we've had some flash flooding) so she has been really forlorn that she can't go "harvest" anything right now. She has been enjoying the ground cherries especially, loves popping them out of their paper husks. I did sneak out there in the mud and pick more cukes today though.
And more corn today... This second picking I just blanched and froze a little while ago while the potatoes were processing. This is the prettiest corn I've ever grown. Delectable (se) hybrid. It's juicy and tender, but not overly sweet. I'll definitely plant it again.
And I canned kosher dill pickles (spears mostly) yesterday and will have to do more tomorrow.
My life has been chaotically busy lately. I haven't had much time to get on here. Between dr appts, weddings, birthday parties, family reunions, and keeping up with the garden... My house is not presentable right now.
I did get mostly caught up on the remaining weeds in the garden, using the clippers to cut them off at the ground, like Jared suggested (and it was much quicker than pulling). Nothing got to go to seed on me yet, so that at least feels like a major victory. It took to raining again the past 3 days, so I have a little more to go once we dry out again.
I tell you what though, I am just about ready for winter. And I wouldn't mind being snowed in for 2 weeks so I don't have to go anywhere. Ha.
OH, and the little one (17 month old DD) climbed the stairs yesterday. All the way to the top in 2.5 seconds while I had my back turned doing dishes. I don't know what I am going to do with this child, she is so high speed and on the go. I had a baby gate up, but DD6 let her out because she was wrecking her blanket fort.
DH is gonna let me sleep in a bit tomorrow. :bun I wish him good luck... He'll have his hands full! LOL
No telling what may jump out at me! 
