Laughing Thyme Farm: Living the Dream

d onions. I pickled three half pint jars of my too small to cut up onions today.  On Sunday I had cut our onion crop to freeze for later use.  Boy.  That was fun…..

It has been my least favorite harvesting job so far.  I think that I peeled and cut onions for two hours straight.  My crop wasn’t even that large either.  The house smelled of onions.  The kids eyes were watering and they kept on sniffling too.  My only problem was my growing impatience.  Usually I kind of like tedious things like that, but by the end of cutting the onions I was practically huffing in annoyance.  But on the positive side….

There is now one big freezer container of onions and the equivalent size of red pepper/onion mix in my freezer.  Frozen onions are always handy to have around when I accidentally run out or if I don’t feel like making my hands reek of allium. 

And some good news after a very, VERY dry summer here on No-Name Farm, (we probably should find a name for it besides that,) the tropical storm that hit Florida last week has given us two days in a row of rain.  I think that it’s supposed to rain tomorrow too.  We needed rain badly.  Our grass was brown.  We haven’t mowed our lawn for at least a month- maybe longer…. early July?  The only rain that we have gotten was maybe 5 min. here and there. 

The first day it rained I went outside for a few minutes and got wet.  My excuse was to go see if our spring level was up.  (It was.)  The rain felt good.  I’m sure that ground is loving it too.