Where we call Home: It's nearly October already!!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

It's nearly October already!!

Whew, I'm a little behind here in keeping up on summer, and her it is fall already. At least it is as far as weather & activities if not by the calendar quite yet!
With a wedding in August, I really slacked off on yard work the middle of the summer along with everything else it seems except wedding plans!
Well, now that's over, and I'm in the middle of canning jelly, jam & fruit. My freezer is full of tomatoes to make tomato soup & salsa out of & can. There are bags & bags of apricots to make into jam. There are sacks full of elderberries to make into jelly & maybe syrup. I also have blackberries & rasberries for jam, and the apples off our trees are waiting for me too.

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My grandpa originally owned an acre or maybe more of land on this corner of town. Over the years he sold off some of it, the first being two lots to the right of where you can see the houses on the cull-d-sac in the background. I remember it being an empty field south all the way to 11th street. Later he sold off 1 lot just south of this place (where you can see the white shed right behind the far tree) leaving a little less than an acre. When I was a girl, grandpa and grandma always had chickens. Occasionally other livestock would come and go! Including calves & goats.
My grandpa was a farmer at heart, and always had a garden. In the summer a meal might consist of onions, radishes, tomatoes, lettuce, corn on the cob, and whatever else he brought to the house that day for grandma to take care of. Peas, beans, squash, carrots... Meat was not a high priority. He loved fruits & vegetables, especially straight from the garden.
The land shown in the picture was often put into alfalfa or winter wheat. The garden was generally in the far back end of the picture, on to the west (right) of the photo. In top right corner, you can see the edge branches of the old mulberry tree, A favorite of ours. Great for climbing or sitting in the tree house that Grandpa made us with cookies, drink & a book!
The mulberry tree was destroyed some years back by "old age" and too many bad wind-storms. It held so many wonderful memories.
Just to the left of that, in the far back you can see the pear tree that still remains today.
The spot where Grandpa and Jeanne are digging is right where our house sits today. About 1/2 of this tilled up land is the neighbors to the east. Sometime later they planted pine trees from the street all the way back along the edge of their property bordering grandpas.
When I was a girl we could sit in the swing just east of the house and see all the way to the park. Today the pine trees are huge, giving a very effectual tall border-wall to the east side of our lot.

Garden Song

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Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow.
All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground
Inch by inch, row by row, Someone bless the seeds I sow.
Someone warm them from below, ’til the rain comes tumbling down.

Pulling weeds and pickin’ stones, man is made of dreams and bones,
Feel the need to grow my own. ’cause the time is close at hand
Grain for grain, sun and rain, find my way in nature’s chain,
To my body and my brain to the music from the land

Plant your rows straight and long, thicken them with pray’r and song
Mother Earth will make you strong if you give her love and care
Old crow watchin’ hungrily, from his perch in yonder tree
In my garden I’m as free as that feathered beak up there.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008

It's nearly October already!!

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