Posted on 11/27/2015 2:03:54 PM PST by greeneyes
My small garden provided me with fresh herbs, lettuce, pansies and even a perfect mini-rose. Probably the last of the season. Peas are flourishing and it looks like the are ready to produce flowers, followed by peas! Not shabby at all for the end of season.
A big handful of dried chipped beef in a large skillet pan. A half a stick of butter and melt it down mixed in with the meat. Add a third cup of flour to make a roux and slightly scorch it. Then slowly add milk while stirring, a half cup at a time until the desired thickness under a gentle simmer-boil. Add a bunch of white or black pepper to taste.
Seven dust. I fill an old wool sock with it and tap it on the cabbage heads at night when the bees are all holed up in the hives. Sort of like a rosin bag a pitcher would use. Very controlled and sight limited method of applying a pest control chemical.
Sight = site. Sorry!
things looking rough this week - freeze warnings for the next several days.
We ate the last of our Cherokee Purple tomatoes this morning. So delicious! The tomato plant that we are attempting to over-winter is still doing well.
36 degrees and wet, wet, wet here in Central Missouri today. All of the progress that I’d made pumping out the pond has been negated. It may be time to just give up on it until next summer.
We hosted Thanksgiving dinner for the family yesterday. I deep-fried one turkey and smoked another. Nobody went home hungry.
I retrieved a trailer load of waste wood from the sawmill this morning. Now it’s time to go out in the damp and throw it onto the woodpile. I’d rather sit on the couch where it’s warm and dry, but this will be the last load I need to get through the winter so it’s not all bad.
So funny, I can just picture the movements to save the turkey. Hubby tries to copy the professional carvers too, I hear the “shoot fire and sage matches”, and he ends up carving it his way. This year I added a package of 4 turkey legs, that made the fellows happy.
Your gardens are beautiful and Mrs tubebender has a way with flowers.
I didn’t get to the community garden to save the cukes and zucchinis. But it’s time to begin pulling stuff for spring planting.
I put a old clean bath towel under the pull out bread board where I carve the bird just in case. Blessings to you and Mr T and may your Zucchini exceed your neighbors worst nightmare!
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