Day 26 (wednesday): Continued 114 | Needlework | Cross-Stitch | Wall Hanging.
Day 27 (thursday): Continued 114 | Needlework | Cross-Stitch | Wall Hanging.
Day 28 (friday): Continued 114 | Needlework | Cross-Stitch | Wall Hanging.
Day 29 (saturday): Continued 114 | Needlework | Cross-Stitch | Wall Hanging.
Day 30 (today): Continued 114 | Needlework | Cross-Stitch | Wall Hanging; Completed 194 | Honey | Jar of Strained Amber Honey.

I’ve been feeling rather homesteady this weekend. Yesterday we went back to Andy’s chiropractor’s assistant’s house and picked another 360 pounds of apples, and then we spent about 7 hours making about 9 gallons of cider. Today, Andy started 5 of those gallons on the journey to being hard cider, and he bottled his blackberry wine. I worked on cleaning out the garden and replanted some strawberry runners. Our garlic order came in, and I was cleaning the garden spot for that…then I found all these runners that needed new homes. Maybe I can put the garlic in between the strawberry runners? We also collected four frames from our beehive and began the painfully tedious and sticky process of harvesting the honey without a honey extractor. We scraped the goop, comb and honey together, off the frames and then strained them into jars through cheesecloth. Not ideal, but it works.

The honey has a nice, but minty (?), flavor. It looks like we’ll get about a quart and a half. Not a lot, but since we haven’t had any honey since we moved here, it’s a step in the right direction.

Work on 114 continues.