I picked the last of the red tomatoes and green and red peppers. I harvested a bunch of the 2 varieties of chard and some beets and beet greens and made a big pot of soup using a jar of canned chicken I helped kill and process a year or so ago. It's that time of year for soups and the wood stove. I am drying more homegrown urban-scavenged sliced apples too. Also, I have started 3 more gallon batches of hard cider in the past week. 1 with juice from Paonia and 2 using juice from local homegrown apples juiced in a juicer with about a quart of fresh juiced crab apples in each of those.

I cleaned the wood stove and had the first fire of the season a few nights ago. Petra laid down next to it's warmth. Oh, also I properly mounted some metal an inch of the walls behind and to the side of the stove- a piece of scrap stainless and a washing machine front.