Beautiful Autumn

Summer is past, and the harvest ended. With Ellen's help, Grandma put up crab apple jelly to be presented to neighbors as Christmas gifts. (Did you know Ellen is a published author? Ask her about it.) Nate and family ran the original Apple Press this year, producing many gallons of the finest - using apples from the Farm. Priscilla and Kenni Lynn put up bushels of tomatoes as salsa, juice, and stewed tomatoes. The three-tree peach orchard produced enough fruit for 20 quarts. Our Concord vineyard yielded three gallon of juice concentrate that will be transformed either to six gallon of new wine for our annual Seder, or into five dozen jars of grape jelly (to be presented as Christmas gifts). We have enough pumpkin for all of our Halloween wishes and needs - we wish for only one, and it will be enough. Our winter squash is plentiful, more than we can use or give away. I wonder if it can be used in ratatouille and frozen. The Lord is good to us.