And the beat goes on - -

More canning.  It's the thing to do when the time is right.  We're just now finishing up all the canned goods that Cathy put up last year and it really saved on our grocery bill.  We still have some of the frozen fruit left.  Went back to Somerset, Kentucky and got more corn and green beans to put up.

That bag holds about a bushel of corn which we shucked and then cut the corn off the cob.

 Joe, our neighbor, had also brought us about a peck of cucumbers so Cathy processed them also.  Found this dude in with the qukes

 

Two growing off a single bud.  Still cucumber though.

 

And there you have the results.  Fourteen pints and 4 quarts of corn and 8 qts of dill pickles.  Ah - so now we get to rest - right, Uh uh.  Next week it's peach season.  We get a bushel of peaches from South Carolina and process them also.  We can mostly but vacuum pak and freeze some for that really fresh flavor.  We only have 2 qts of peaches left from last years canning season.  Thank God it's been cooler lately or we'd be sweltering with all the heat this canning gives off.  Now I'll take them down under the house for storage.  It's not actually a basement.  The house was built into the hill side so the land slopes under the house and there's a fairly large space underneath that stays the same temperature as the inside of our house.  Excellent for storage.  I even have a potato ben for long term storage of potatoes and onions. 
Been doing more research on the family genealogy.  I mentioned in an earlier post that we had stopped in Olney, Illinois to research the county records.  I found a bill of sale for the grave site of Lewis P. Elston.  It conveys the grave from John B. Porter, who appears to have been the Funeral Director in Olney at the time.  So this piece of paper confirms the burial spot for Lewis.  Now all I have to do is confirm his Civil War record and I can petition the government for a military marker for his grave.  Currently, his grave is unmarked.

His grave is located just to the left of the pink granite marker in the upper right side of the photo. 
 I hate seeing unmarked graves, even though I understand that not everyone can afford the prices charged for stones these days.  I was sexton for a 50 acre city cemetery for over 6 years and remember so many graves went unmarked.  I tried to ensure that our records were current and accurate so that everyone buried there was accounted for and could be easily located, even without a marker.  Next trip up that way I'm gonna try to talk to the caretaker of the Olney city cemetery to see how they manage and who installs their monuments.  Oh well, onward and upward.