Projects….And More Projects

Who’s excited for Thursday???? Anyone??? THIS GIRL!!!!!
Thursday, September 22, is the first day of Autumn!!! It’s my favorite season!!!

With summer coming to an end, and cooler weather soon upon us, there are still a lot of things happening on the homestead. Projects getting finished up, some projects getting started, and cleaning up the garden.

There have been a few projects around the homestead that I have been working on, and I can finally post pics of the finished products. About a month ago, Luke and I were talking about our garden and how, with its abundance, we are able to give to others. From that, we nonchalantly came up with a name for it….and it stuck! I painted some signs and hung them on the gates… Our garden is now named, Little Eden. I was reading some Bible verses about Eden, and the verse from Genesis 2:8 made me smile. It says “The Lord God plated a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man whom He had formed”. Why did I smile…??? Because on our property, our garden is to the east! 🙂

Some other projects I have been working on, is a garbage can enclosure. I am so over the garbage cans being stored in the garage, and the bugs that accumulate around the trash cans, so I came up with the idea of making an enclosure out of pallet wood to house them outside. This way, the trash and its bugs can stay outside, and we don’t have to worry about the trash cans blowing away (which used to be a problem).

Another projects is the path to the duck house and chicken coop. I finally got the pavers laid the rest of the way, and was able to fill it with sawdust and lay the pallet boards. I was a little short of cut boards, so I still need to deconstruct some pallets to get the wood laid, but the sawdust is down and its looking better than just pavers and grass.
Sawdust played double duty this week on the homestead, and I was able to get some fresh sawdust on the garden paths. It’s an endless process, putting down sawdust in the garden, but it looks so good when its down.

We are still getting a LOT of tomatoes out of our garden. They were struggling in the beginning, but they have really made up for their slow start! This week, we canned 36 pints of stewed tomatoes!! It literally took all day! It’s so rewarding though, to know that this winter when we want to make chili, we can just go down to the basement and use the stewed tomatoes that came from our garden!

A couple weeks ago I posted about how we had a terrible case of squash bugs and vine borer, and I was honestly sick of looking at the dying and mangled plants in the garden. This past week, Wyatt and I spent some time cleaning it up. We removed all the vines, weeds, and rotten fruit/vegetables. While we were cleaning the rows out, we found that we have our first ever little (and I mean LITTLE) eggplant! Still not sure why those plants didn’t grow more….. But, the garden looks much better just having those items cleaned out. Now, the open rows are ready for me to winterize…but that’s a topic for another post.

And finally, Wyatt wanted to take on the planning and building of a small building for the cats. They are currently in a shed on our property, but with the hopes of putting a kennel in that spot, the shed will need to come down. This is the beginning of the cat house plan.

Summer is coming to a close, and autumn is in a few days. While things of summer may be dying off for the season, God assures us that to everything there is a season. The joys of summer may be coming to an end, but we now get to anticipate the joys of fall and all that comes with the next season… For me, that’s the cooler weather, sweaters and boots, bonfires, leaves turning colors, and THANKSGIVING!!!!. What is your favorite thing about fall?? Leave a comment, I’d love to know what others like about my favorite season! Have a blessed week!!!