Love these pics - You look like you are off to sell at the Farmer's Market with your hat and whole kit and caboodle!

As a crazy cat lady in training, I can't help but notice that you don't talk about your other kitty cat much. (Is his name Strider? I think it was from Lord of the Rings...) Is he ok?

Emily --- Thanks for asking! Strider is doing great, and has been much more cuddly ever since we got back from the beach. (I think he missed us.)

He's less of a show-cat, though --- he's scared of everyone except me, and tends to prefer to spend most of the day outside working even when I'm the only one around. So he rarely gets photographed. You might notice I nabbed a shot of him by the fire and put it in this post (although you might have thought it was Huckleberry, who looks very similar, but without the white). I mostly had to post about Huckleberry today because he was jealous we'd showcased Strider more recently than him.

These are fantastic photos of you Anna! Do you plan on fermenting your cabbage? If not kraut, how do you like to eat it? Happy November!

Eva --- Good question, and that could be its own post, but I'll just reply briefly here. We're not big kraut or slaw people, so I use our cabbages in non-standard ways. In the spring, most of our cabbage becomes the base of soups, but fall cabbages don't match up with tomato season. Yesterday, we had raw cabbage for lunch (which we sometimes pair with humus), and sauteed cabbage for supper. Today we might try roasting some like I do with brussels sprouts, and another favorite use is in potstickers (which I recently make as a casserole since we've ditched the grains). I hope that gives you some ideas!