Best wishes, Galen. I am glad you are finally having some pleasant weather in the UK. Needless to say, the sun is shining here but it is a little chilly first thing in the morning. Autumn started officially on 1st March, but my daughter is desperate for rain - they have a hose pipe ban on alternate days and the ground is rock hard.
She has a glut of tomatoes, so she will be making tomato sauce for pasta, which she will freeze in meal-sized containers, and lots of sweet chutney. She has already laid down lots of jars of green tomato chutney.
I am having fun watching the four chicks which hatched from her own hens, but three are boys so I am afraid they will be for the pot! You can't be sentimental when you are trying to be self-sufficient in food. The two pigs went last week and are now in the freezer!