We have been harvesting the garden a little at a time. Some folks in our area saw their first frost this week. That's not too unusual, our average first frost is mid-September, but we're hoping to get a few more weeks out of Summer.
Some of our pumpkins. Our seeds were local, and no variety was indicated on the package, but we think we got a pie pumpkin variety, resulting in the smaller size. But we should get some good pumpkin pies out of this group.
The boys have been busy pulling carrots and beets, and some greens.
The only cabbage we were able to salvage was the small heads the moose didn't eat, but just about everything else is still producing well.
We started our first canning efforts. Not too much this year, just some pickles and pickled carrots. We also made refrigerator pickles with the large number of cucumbers that the outside beds produced.
Some nice silver (coho) salmon for the freezer.
Grayson's haul from a couple of weeks ago.
More fish for the freezer.
Grayson's caribou came back from the processor last week. Polish sausage, summer sausage and Italian sausage.
We added it to the roasts we had processed ourselves.
Dino is in his twilight. He's moving slower and slower these days, and I got a little stuck down at the creek last week with him. He walked down with me, but couldn't make it back by himself, and he needed a little help to get back home. We took him on our Denali road trip with us, but he sat fairly still on his pillow most of the ride. He's a good boy, and he's still enjoying life, but we know his time with us is limited.
A couple of funny videos. First one, above, shows a calf moose that seems to like the fly paper trap I put out next to our compost pile. Next video, below, is of the same calf, the next night, coming back to lick the fly paper again, but this time gets it stuck in its hair - then he does a little dance to try and get the paper off. I thought it was funny.
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