Sukkot has passed and harvest festivals are again being celebrated in the valley

It is still a month or more (I hope) before the first frost. The new garlic patch has been sewn and the tiller is almost done working  to turn in the mulch for the new corn,squash, and bean patches. I hope my calculations will be able to meet a lot more of our needs next year for vegetables and that the growing season is a successful one. I also want to set out several rows of berry bushes and try to see if they will take. Perhaps there is still enough time to get them rooted before the frost.
The deer are back down from the high country again. Right on time! They wiped out the leaves on the grape vines and took most of the squash leaves too - they left plenty of hoof prints though......

The squash and beans are ready for another picking and the sweet corn is almost ready too. I will clear the now spent sunflowers in prep for the hoop house over the weekend.  I should have the PVC and fittings by sometime next week for the hoop house and I hope to keep the now mature squash, peas and beans away from the frost for a while... and maybe try to start some winter salad greens.
The mobile-vet has come out and given the menagerie a clean bill of health, shots are all up to date, and no great troubles. Wrestling the goats to give them their shots was the worst of it.  Even the cat who has traditionally had major issues at the vets office was much easier to deal with in her own environment rather than on the cold steel table at the vet.
 We had a soaking rain a few nights ago and the grasses and the garden have perked up substantially. The downpour and wind unfortunately lifted the tarp from the a part of the haystack and ruined a good bit of it. Luckily we've not put in the usual 100+ bales yet this fall. So thankfully the loss was relatively minimal.
  Now that the poo-pile is turned in and the tilling is almost completed I've begun oiling the exposed wood on the exterior of the house. I think I've got a good start and am happy to have begun this task before the first week in October. By the time I'm finished with the door frames, the front and back porch, as well as the rest of the barn, I expect to have used up another 5 gallons of linseed oil. One gallon so far has coated  6 of the 14 posts, 30 feet of 6x8 beam, two door frames, and 4 corbels on the barn. There is a lot more to go, another 100+ feet of beam, 10 more corbels, the 2x 12 rafters and all the tongue & groove paneling is still to be done. Applied by hand mopping it on with a brush I'll be lucky to be done by Thanksgiving. Working on it is not a full time task for me as standing on a ladder painting overhead is taxing. Cramping arms and a stiff neck is no fun after several hours of working at it. It however is a therapeutic activity if done in moderate doses, and the resulting glow and honey butter finish is well worth the time.