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We cooked up a storm for Thanksgiving.  Here is Jen making three pies simultaneously.

We got a monster turkey from Frank Vosburgh at Kesicke Farm — 25.75 pounds.  It was the smallest one he had.

Julie and Stacey came in uniform.

Sarah danced whenever not organizing or playing board games.

Her grandfather looked on bemusedly.

Daisy is patiently waiting for Thanksgiving, when she hopes many items will fall off the dining table.

We had a surprise dusting of snow overnight.  We hope it won’t interfere with anyone’s holiday travel plans!

… is absolutely destroying our porch.

Grrr.

We had fine weather today for a walk up Burger Hill.

Daisy and Ringo, who were married last year in an informal ceremony officiated by Sarah and her friend Sophie, came along for the walk.

Jen harvested our two pumpkins, just in time for Halloween.

On Saturday Daisy had a doggy play-date to climb Burger Hill with Ringo.

We stayed to watch the sun set over the Catskills.

Later we saw the hunter/super moon.  A well-hyped moon.

On Sunday, Sarah and Jen visited the Sheep & Wool festival at the Rhinebeck fairgrounds.  Sarah made friends with a lamb.

Jen gathered the remaining tomatoes and peppers ahead of tonight’s possible frost.  I guess we can have fried or pickled green tomatoes, but I have no idea what to do with all those peppers (many of which are outside the frame).

Jen grew this teeny weeny melon in her garden.  Now we are in a race against time — or, rather, against the first frost, which thank goodness is not forecast to arrive this week.

Daisy pursues the fall sports.

We had a busy weekend, hosting the Winnakee Land Trust Barn Tour on Saturday and the Landsman Kill Trail Association Fall Trail Ride on Sunday.   Our barn, which is 100 years old this year, has one of the earliest poured concrete foundations in Dutchess County.

On Saturday I tried to give the barn tourists an authentic farm experience by mowing the hayfield above the barn.

I had some help from Del Wolcott, who did quite a bit of mowing to get ready for the LKTA.

Jen used some of our many, many tomatoes to make tomato jam.

Jen’s garden is producing more tomatoes than we can comfortably eat, but we are doing our best to keep up, with tomato salads, tomato tarts, BLTs, bagels with cream cheese and tomatoes — you name it.  Jen is even working on a tomato jam.

We had a bat mitzvah-shortened weekend in the country, but on Sunday Sarah found some time to hang out with BFFs Anna and Daisy.

We had many threatening clouds but ultimately a beautiful weekend.

Jen’s gardens are at maximum production.  We have more flowers than vases, and more tomatoes than we can eat.

Sarah’s friend from school, Ainsley, spent the weekend with us.  On Sunday, Sarah led a jam tasting.

Now she has her first full week of seventh grade.