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Carl (carma48) posted an update Sunday, Sep 11, 2022, 7:34pm EDT, 1 year, 8 months ago
Just stopping in to say hello, too. We've just been really busy. On Saturday night of Labor Day weekend, our refrigerator died. Of course, all appliance centers in this neck of the woods were closed until Tuesday! we had to get all the stuff from the freezer compartment (mostly veggies) crammed into our big standing freezer with all the meat. Called Tom in Auburn & he brought up their small, apartment size fridge that they use when they go camping. We managed to get pretty much everything into that & it tided us over for a few days. Tuesday morning I went into Stanley's in Rumford & bought a new GE refrigerator. They delivered it Wednesday morning & all is now back to normal on the food front.
We've harvested all our cucumbers, green beans, roma beans, yellow beans & corn. All either frozen or canned & we gave a bunch of the canned to Marley, Emma, Ann & Tom and Amy. Been freezing Tomatoes by the gallon bag full & DW has been making pasta sauce. We still have tomatoes ripening, but not too many left. Have harvested & eaten all the lettuce & most of the scallions. Rutabagas are still growing. They won't be ready until well into fall. They can stay in the ground through at least 2 or 3 frosts, which will sweeten them up.
Pretty soon we'll go down to either Ricker's or Coopers Orchards to get our fall apples. late Summer & early Fall are busy times.