...and now it is October! My oh my time does fly doesn't it? The hay is in - quite a beautiful lot I must say. Back in the summer, we were so excited to have the red clover hay. We assumed it would be soft and nice. not. It was scratchy and sticky sticky sticky! Live and learn. This time, there wa no special planting...just your regular mowing and baling of the grasses that live in this field. The hay is very, very nice. 
In addition, we finally got our order of honey jars. That took until mid-September. So we've been slowly decanting the honey, and have it for sale. A we all know, if you leave honey sitting around for any time at all, it begins to crystallize. We had ours in 5-galon buckets. Most people store it this way. But the honey at the bottom of each bucket had begun to set. So we had to figure out how to warm it up. Once you warm it, it achiees it's beautiful fluid state again, and all is well. No harm done. But we were concerned about heating up the plastic buckets. We didn't want to take a chance and accidentally overheat it, so placing them in the crawfish boiler outside, in the end, didn't seemlike a good idea. Will did a lilttle research and checking around, and in the end built this groovy box and hung a lightbulb in it. Voila!
We are awaiting our 'government greenhouses' - ordered and now shipped. Two high tunnels that we will put up in the very near future. We'll be having a 'Greenhouse Raising' weekend. Much more on that later, I'm sure.
In addition, we finally got our order of honey jars. That took until mid-September. So we've been slowly decanting the honey, and have it for sale. A we all know, if you leave honey sitting around for any time at all, it begins to crystallize. We had ours in 5-galon buckets. Most people store it this way. But the honey at the bottom of each bucket had begun to set. So we had to figure out how to warm it up. Once you warm it, it achiees it's beautiful fluid state again, and all is well. No harm done. But we were concerned about heating up the plastic buckets. We didn't want to take a chance and accidentally overheat it, so placing them in the crawfish boiler outside, in the end, didn't seemlike a good idea. Will did a lilttle research and checking around, and in the end built this groovy box and hung a lightbulb in it. Voila!We are awaiting our 'government greenhouses' - ordered and now shipped. Two high tunnels that we will put up in the very near future. We'll be having a 'Greenhouse Raising' weekend. Much more on that later, I'm sure.in the meantime, the field is plowed, it won't ever rain again, seems like, and the garden is resting.