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My Favorite Time of Year...
...is also my busiest season. I have a few more "employment stories" to tell, but for now I'm going to take a break.
A late afternoon walk to the big beaver pond - after a day of canning tomatoes - yielded this photo. (CLICK ON IT FOR A BETTER LOOK).
I'm sorry I haven't been visiting blogs lately, but until the garden is put away and things are ready for winter, I just can't do everything I'd like to do. In the meantime, because this season is so beautiful, perhaps I'll post an occasional photo.
Best wishes ~
The Wiz'd Wiz'd
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Monday, September 24, 2007
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When you get your chores done we will still be here.
What a beautiful pic!
We will just wait patiently. Enjoy your Autumn.
I have never canned a tomato in my life. LOL.
Keep the photos coming! This one looks like a painting......Thank you.
September is my favourite time too. I don't can tomatoes, so we are gorging on them before the fall rains turn the plants black.
Those must be some industrious beavers that made that pond.
V.
So, wait. Let me get this straight:
You're putting real life above a virtual one?
A person can do that?
please do post more!
What an enchanting pic. One could just fall into it... I imagine waterfowl stop there on occasion too....big sigh here..
I canned tomatoes every year when we had a real garden, and I miss it. I like thinking of you preserving homegrown food for the long winter ahead....
Have a good break:)
Bring on the sweat shirts and sweat pants!
What an interesting pic, Wiz!!!! Are those dead (drowned) tree trunks standing out of the water that we see??? Was this area once dry & has been more recently flooded??? That's almost how it appears. Just curious. But very interesting pic. Too interesting to be purely "pretty".
Congrats on getting your property "put to bed" for the winter.
Thanks all...
As for canning anything, it's just "fussy" work - must be systematic and careful at each step to be sure there will be no spoilage/danger. There's no other secret to it. It's easy but just takes time, and of course the home-grown organic stuff that goes in the jars is so much better than anything you can buy.
I also made dilled green beans (yummy and spicy), pickled beets and some pickled pumpkin - each good and distinctive. Next will be apple sauce (although I'll buy the fruit).
Katy - The beaver begin their mischief by plugging a tiny stream, digging up mud from it to pack in with the branches they gnaw down to form a dam. It's fascinating to watch. They never do more than they need to, and they always add to the dam when the water rises. I have stood about fifteen feet from a beaver doing this.
When we moved here over thirty years ago, what you see in the photo was reasonably dry woodland. There were a few seasonal springs in it as well as the trickle of a stream. Now it's a huge pond! There are two active beaver lodges in it, and lots of wildlife that prefer to live in or near a pond. We have skated on it in the winter and often ski across it. Until several years ago (before the tallest of the dead trees got pretty rotten), there was a great blue heron rookery in this pond. One spring there were 24 nests with 2 - 4 young birds in each! What a racket they would make!
The pond is always a soothing place to visit, changing with the seasons.
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