My poor neglected blog

Sigh, I thought with school starting that I would be less busy...ha. We are attempting to get all the summer projects done before it gets too cold. We are in the process of sanding our stairs before we can stain it the same color as the deck (which was unfinished wood when we moved in so we had to clean that too). It has been a good little project. I hope to be done with it by the end of September. Then there is the kitchen cabinets. I have not liked them from the minute we bought the house...hopefully by the time Thanksgiving rolls around we will be done with that little project. In the mean time it is harvest season and today I bottled 12 pints of peach jam and 7 bottles of peaches and there are grapes in the steamer for juice (which this is my first attempt so we will see how it goes.) I have also been trying to get out of the cooking rut...I have been quite successful with recipes from several cooking blogs. Really I don't know how they do it! The sites I have come across that I like are recipeshoebox.blogspot.com crockpot365.blogspot.com 365daysofcrockpot.com and the old standbys sisterscafe and melskitchen I have tried to be more organized by planning meals. It really works so much better this way! I have so great pics of the David and Emma that I will post maybe after I check on the grapes. We also had a FUN cookout with my sister and her family. It is always great to get together with them!