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A bit more on "closing" down the homestead for winter & additions.
This is from yesterday when I could not get the site to post:

I finished picking the broccoli, cabbage & cauliflower today. We had beets and greens for supper with our meatloaf. There are about half the beets left, the carrots and the chard. I dug all of the garlic and put it to dry. 'tP' helped me dig the potatoes out front of the "water tower" - there are just the few planted in the empty berry bed left to dig. We got lots of really nice red "spuds" from today's dig. I picked a few strawberries and some fall raspberries - I put these in the freezer so I could add to them as the berries ripen, right up to the time when freezing temps outside will put a stop to that. I plan to make some mixed berry jam from them. I also picked the last few appples that were on the tree. They will become sauce or apple butter.

We put a few more strips of "siding" on the chicken house - it's a long process, doing a bit at a time.

'tP' is off bowling tonight and I am finishing up my CookieA socks made from the Maizey yarn. I also plan to get a bit of spinning done - I've almost finished that NZ long wool and want to get onto some of the other fiber that I have. I want to practice on the wheel, too, so that I can begin again on that. However, I plan to make socks for Christmas gifts, so may be just "socking, socking, socking" for the near future - there are lots of feet in this family, LOL.

TODAY: I finished the next to last bump of the NZ wool - just one more to go and then I'll ply and see what the yarn is like before deciding what to do with it. The CookieA socks are done and blocking. I have to work on the #2 GS's shirt and some other mending things that need to be done tonight.