Lots of different things

I haven't had time or energy to post for a while.  Things are really happening fast.

We were driving down to the farm earlier than usual because the framers were starting.  As we came to the point to descend into the Kentucky River valley, we saw ahead this wall of fog.  The blue you see directly ahead on the highway.  As we drove down onto the bridge, we couldn't even see the railing on the side of the bridge.

As we got close to the farm and the river near our house, the fog is sitting like a bed of cotton all along the river.  We have fog every day, but on this day, it seemed softer - like a bed of cotton candy.

 When we got to the farm and I looked toward the hill where the sun was peeking over the top of the hill, it was shining through a tree.  It looked almost like the wings of a dove flying into a ray of light.

 

The weather reports predicted a frost, so I pulled all the pepper plants and pulled off the peppers.  I had a bumper crop. 

 

 

I sat at the picnic table the pulled the fruit off the vines while I watched the framing team begin to build our house.  The weather was absolutely perfect.  Sunny and warm with a nip of fall in the air.

 

Now - what do I do with the peppers?  I did some research and decided to try to make some pepper rings.

 

 

The internet said to wear gloves to handle the peppers.  I didn't and now, 2 days later, I can still feel the burn on my hands.

 

I ended up with 8 pints.  We can't taste for 4 weeks, so we'll have to see how they are.

And now the exciting progress on our house.  The basement walls are framed in, the main floor deck is on ...

And most of our main floor walls are up.  The angled wall you see below is our front door.  Just around the corner to the left is the kitchen window.  Then the center door and 2 flanking windows onto the porch and will be our dining room, and then the far left, my sewing room.

Below is a view from the back, from a distance.  The difficulty that you cannot see from this picture is that the new roof is going to be in the way of the satellite dish antenna, which is currently located on the back corner of the existing house.  We cannot relocate the antenna to the new roof because it does not exist yet.  At least, that is what the DISH network guy says.

 

 

Tomorrow, Friday, I expect the roof to go up.

We are soooo excited!!!

An exciting time in the Bluegrass.