Today is a day of rest- ha! Yesterday one of my neighbors brought me some produce from her garden, so started out this morning canning some of hers and some of mine.. I get to keep it all though. Unfortunately one of the canning jars broke in the water bath - bottom just left the rest of the bottle.. what a mess.. Didn't really impact the other jars but had to clean out the water and start over.. Missed Sunday School today as a result.   Then thought I'd try a cucumber-pineapple salsa to have with dinner tonight so have that in the refrig to let the ingredients blend.  Planned dinner with my sister-in-law and now really can rest until dinner time.

Yesterday was a busy day.. Moving lots of logs from trees Butch is cutting down. Cleaned out one section of the "garden of Eden" (my aunts name for one section of the property). I wish I had a good "before picture" to show you so you could appreciate how much work was done. This one was taken about this time last year and looked pretty much the same this year; look past the weeping willow. This is the same area you will see below.

Butch has cleaned out a bunch of stuff on the banks surrounding it over several days and then I cleaned out the garden area itself yesterday. I didn't even realized there was a stone wall under all the junk that was growing there. Think it looks pretty great. Aunt Elaine would be very pleased.  Still need to cut the ivy back a bit more, but it is definitely looking good. Here are two views of same area taken from opposite sides. The hole in the stone wall is a drainage area under the road.. comes out on our neighbor's property. There used to be water from a spring running through this pipe that fed our houses and the community center. But we all have wells - long time now. The spring and Spring House is still there, but not used. The leaves you see on top of the wall were tree limbs to be burned and are gone today. An amazing transformation!