Well, it's been a very busy month. We've put up quarts and quarts of pickles - all different kinds, pints and pints of green beans, pickled beets, zucchini, zucchini pickles, zuccini relish, turnips, greens and radish relish. We dried all kinds of herbs and hung the tobacco. The girls are busy learning how to read and I'm learning more and more about how to teach them. We've been watching the world events and becoming more and more against war. The world we are creating to leave to them is just terrible. War, killing and suppression - both political and economic - everywhere. We've used colloidal silver for eye infections and cuts, tea tree oil for burns and insect bites and lavender oil to wind down after busy summer days. Life in the summer is busy and bustling and as we go into August the busiest month of putting up veggies and herbs for the winter is ahead of us. We're starting to look foreward to the cooler months that are calmer and give us more time for reflection and spending family times for fun instead of working so hard. Of course, school will start in the fall and that always makes for busy-ness as well.