The Cole Homestead

Well, we are leaving the farm

Not for forever, just for the weekend.  We are going to go camping Thursday thru Sunday.  We are camping about 20 minutes away so we can still check on the chickens and the garden.  I was so excited that I started packing already.  I also made about 15 pounds ( before its dried) of jerky.  I hope this lasts the family a little while!  We plan to go shopping either tommorrow or Friday ( We didn't want to shop on thursday since it is to storm.) 

ON another happy note, my pressure canner came in and I can not wait to make some mint jelly.  Mint grows around here like a weed.  It has been growing around my grandmas barn since long before any of us were around.  My fathers always hated it.  Gram made a lot of mint jelly and mint tea.  When he got older he tried to take weed spray to it.  I guess a love for the stuff skips a generation.