Thanks to all of you who have purchased my book. I welcome all questions, reviews and comments.

I canned some calico tomatoes today. Calico style tomatoes are red and yellow tomatoes canned together. They make an attractive, tasty, and colorful product.

I went through my cucumber patch and picked the last of the cukes. Quite a few of them were yellow already, so I'll make a batch of senf gherkin, also called thunder and lightning pickles. It's a great recipe for using over-ripe cucumbers.

Meg's kitties are out and about now. They're chasing every ant and beetle that crawls along the paths. Meg just seems to want to find some place where the kittens are not! They are only 5 weeks old, so not old enough to be without mama yet. I'll start them on solid food this week.

Our church is coming to help build a new barn next month. We have a lot of prep work to do, with removing trees and getting some dozer work done, and setting the main poles, that we'll be busy for the next few weeks!

Again, thanks to all my friends out there.