Nov. 20 - 26, 2011

Temperature Range:

• lows: 34 - 58 F
• highs: 59 - 72 F

Rainfall: 1.05"

Harvested:

• collard greens
• Meyers lemon

Gathered:

• persimmons
• pecans

Egg Counts

• Sun. 0
• Mon. 1
• Tues 1
• Wed. 0
• Thurs. 3
• Fri. 0
• Sat. 2
• Week's Total: 7

Observed & Accomplished
Sunday

• day of rest
• seeded & froze more persimmon pulp
• potted 2 sweet basil cutting I made that rooted
• light, chilly rain

Monday

• foggy in the a.m.
• thundershower in late afternoon
• gathered more persimmons

Tuesday

• more rain after sunset
• made another hard cheese
• made a pie with green tomatoes. Recipe needs work :o

Wednesday

• day 1 of green tomato jam
• using 1 of my Meyers lemons in the jam
• picked up more pecans
• ground our corn for cornmeal
• homegrown cornmeal pancakes for lunch. Yum!
• made corn bread for turkey stuffing tomorrow
• used last of the 2010 pizza sauce (spaghetti)

Thursday - ingredients from the homestead for my share of Thanksgiving dinner:

• sweet potatoes
• thyme
• rosemary
• corn for cornmeal for cornbread for stuffing
• lemon for iced tea
• day 2 of green tomato jam
• ate 2 of the last window sill ripened tomatoes

Friday

• opened 1st jar of 2011 pizza sauce

Saturday

• a few more persimmons
• egg laying seems to be picking up(?)
• found 'possum poop in the hay mow