We actually turned on the heat for an hour the other day to take the chill out of the house!
And all the rain is making the leaves fall off the trees - so we haven't been getting all the beautiful autumnal colors we usually get.
Had to make laundry soap on Monday - hope this batch lasts as long as the last batch - I last made laundry soap in January.
I got the baseboards finely stained for the music room, which is also probably going to be a guest bedroom. Now we just have to put some expando foam in between the floor and the walls before we put up the baseboards, for some insulation.
Today I am dehydrating more onions and mushrooms. I think I will end up with a quart jar of onions and a pint jar of mushrooms.
My sauerkraut, which I started on Sept 16th is doing well.
I had to call DD last week about her pumpkin cheesecake recipe, and we got to talking about the sauerkraut. Said she just heard Alton Brown talking about making it in a tupperware container. She also the grands are doing well, and back in the swing of fall homeschooling. Next month DD leads the homeschooling group (28 to 30 kids, depending on who shows up) and is going to be teaching about onomatopoeia. DGD (12) is doing a report on Eleanor Roosevelt (one of my personal favorites
) and DGS#1 (almost 9) is reporting on his first year experience in the local baseball league.
TR is off Friday and we are actually supposed to get as high as 69!!
I am psyched!
I have to make a couple apple pies for a church function on Monday. I think I will make a deep dish with phyllo crusts in the springform pan and a caramel pecan topped one in my regular pie dish. We still have apples left from the ones our friend gave us, so just need to set up the time to do the baking.
My sis-in-law said she is coming to visit this week-end. The house is a complete disaster area...and I wish I were kidding about that! I have been so busy with projects, recipe testing and my 2 Bible studies, that I have only been doing my "Daily" cards and everything else has been pushed to the side.
I have teddy bears, chickens and prayer shawls all over the furniture in the sun room (church projects I've been knitting). I have recipes and cookbooks all over the computer table and dining room table. (The computer is in the dining room.) I do have my mother's old handwritten and collected recipes spread out by categories on a cardboard box lid on the table, so they can be moved when TR and I eat our meals.
And I have canning stuff all over the breakfast nook table; not only fruit and veg, but the huge canner and jars as well.
So tomorrow and Friday we will be doing a number of "Monthly" cards and the cards for September I didn't get done -- like clean the coils on the refrigerator and clean the cobwebs throughout the house. Doesn't that sound like fun?!
Yesterday TR found during his Disciples study at church that our friend Marion was brimming with good news. First her daughter and our friend, Mikki, is pregnant. This will be Mikki's and Tom's seventh child; their oldest is getting ready to graduate from university and the youngest is in 3rd or 4th grade. Also recently Marion underwent a mastectomy; this week she was released from "full restrictions"! God is certainly at work.
Well, I best get a move on, TR is waiting for dinner.
Have fun!
Sounds like you have been keeping busy. Our tomatoes were so disease riddled this year that I pulled them at the end of August. 
