This has been a busy time in the garden. The farmer is doing something new this year. He dehydrated the seedless grapes to make raisins. They come out of the dehydrator warm and a little crispy on the outside, and full of flavor.

The black beans were a request from Rhonda.

we added some to a batch of salsa. Delicious.

This year's wine has been started, both white and red. We have really enjoyed the finished product from the past two years.

The watermelons are a lovely apricot color inside, and very juicy. We have picked the apples, but haven't done anything with them yet. I made a peach/raspberry cobbler out of the last of the Colorado peaches and fresh-picked berries.

The insects and bees are all over the raspberry patch. At night, we can hear the raccoons chattering as they raid the grapevines. They should be fat by winter.

I am slowly improving at the health record, but I still find it frustrating. Instead of saying just what I want, it gives me snippets of canned text. I learned more this week about the pharmacy (e-prescribing) and ordering lab and xray. Because the hospital is on a different computer program, the lab and xray live in a different world, and until the programmers can build a patch, the results don't automatically come into the record.

I feel like the doctor has taken the place of medical records and transcription, without a bump in pay and only frustration at the finished product. Once upon a time, the whole note could read: Sore throat and fever. Strep screen positive. IM Penicillin 600,000 Units. Now it prints out four pages long, but doesn't convey any more real information. Sigh.

In the quilting world, I am trying to restore Mom's clamshell quilt (some pieces of satin have frayed badly) and then will send it to a longarm quilter. The quilting should stabilize the fabric, and hold it in place. Hopefully, it will be stronger and more useable. I did take off the bright pink border, and will do a simple one, so the focus is on the quilt itself. I will put a label on the back to record the information she had on her border. I promise pictures when it is done. It will likely be next summer, but I think it is worth the effort.

We are going to a threshing bee in Meadow today. The farmer says it it time to get ready. He is right.