In which we eat a lot of squash

This week we found some green grapes while we were visiting the local park. We have standing permission from the elderly couple who owns the grapes to eat anything that grows on the outside of the fence, so we gathered about 5 lbs of grapes in about 1 minute of picking.

We usually wait till the first frost to pick their concord grapes, but with green grapes, it seems that the flavor is good before then. It looks like this year will be a good year for grape juice :)

We also canned more peaches. This time we preprocessed them by boiling them down in a little water mixed with citric acid and sugar (they produce a lot of juice when you cook them down, so a lot of starting liquid is not necessary). So many more fit in a jar if you preprocess them, so we will do that form now on. It really isn't that much more work.

We have also been enjoying squash (zucchini, yellow, etc) from a couple of different sources this week. We personally planted a ton of plants, but we are not harvesting nearly enough ourselves, so we have been supplementing our own production with squash from other sources (co-workers and church members).

How anyone cannot grow enough squash is a subject of discussion in many circles that we frequent, however I have decided that the family of Mrs. True must have angered an irascible gypsy, or something like that in some ancient time, and that the curse still follows them till this day.

To be honest, though, the True family (including Mr. True) does has a bit of a problem with growing squash, which is a pity because we love to eat it. Just this week we made pasta with squash, stir fry with squash, pancakes with squash (sort of like a mixture of Okonomiyaki and pumpkin bread), and we have also had squash as a side dish multiple times. Our goats and chickens would probably also love the stuff, but we don't have any to spare.

Speaking of goats and chickens, they are doing well. We expect to have a new kid soon, as Clarabel visited the stud almost 150 days ago now. Perhaps our next post will be about that.

Also, I finally fixed the bucket bike. I will make a post soon detailing what it took to get it all working well as this post is being posted much too late already.