It's the final push of activity before Old Man Winter begins to rear his ugly head...

I was a whirlwind of activity yesterday, it's amazing how things add up around here, and we don't even have that big of an operation, but if you do some things on your own (without corporations) you'll know what I mean. Fall is the time of the "crunch".

Since we began homesteading I've finally learned to enjoy the winter. I used to hate winter before. Now I just "die"...literally I allow myself to die, to be slow, to go to bed super early (which I could never do before because I was an eternal night hawk) and take joy in doing nothing.

Banana bread, my kids have been bugging me for a few days to make some, and nothing makes me happier than when they come home from school to a nice warm treat!

My musical selection for your scrolling...

A little dark around the edges, I don't know how I get fooled by this every time, the recipe always says to bake for 1 hour, yet 30 minutes is usually good. This one I checked at 40 and Fucking Burned lol!!

Didn't stop the after school crowd though!

Would you like a little bread with that butter @EddieBowes?

Didn't stop the after work crowd either haha, @hendrix22 always enjoys!

Banana bread never lasts long...an hour or so and she's pretty much annihilated.

Buns: Gramma Anne's recipe of course!

I make 30 every couple days now, my growing boys...how they make me sweat haha!!

Homestead Soup!

This I made 2 days prior, all ingredients from our homestead except salt, pepper and garlic. Chicken bones which I cooked with onion and garlic for 24 hours to make the broth. Carrots and chicken, oregano and sage. A really simple one because @hendrix22 had a bit of a stomach bug.

More Veggie Harvesting And Saving Seeds

Found some more random squashes around...

Went out with some baggies to collect some seeds.

Lettuce.

Cosmos.

Poppies! This variety I have which grow SO HUGE!

The cosmo seeds still had a bit of green on them so I transferred them to a paper bag.

Found these stragglers outside as well, drying them for the seed.

Bagging seeds I had been drying all over the house lol!

Beans.

Peas.

Getting the Lupin seeds out of their pods.

And Final Bonus...

I found some paper bags with Sage in them that I had dried in the spring, time to smudge!

I hope you enjoyed poking around our humble homestead, I left some things out like taking care of the chickens, the meat birds and my other chore drudgery but you get the hint, yesterday was a busy day. The thing that made me finally stop was when I burned my arm pulling out the last buns after we had supper. I felt so sick after, it was a pretty good one. I ended up just having a shower and reading my book for the rest of the night. Oh and of course stalking my friends on the Steem blockchain!

Sending out tonnes of love to you on this Autumn day (or Spring depending where you are on Earth), thanks again for witnessing my journey!