Pinging the list.
I would LOVE to have a little greenhouse.It can get pretty brutal during the winter around here.
It’s starting to get dry here in Central Missouri.
Not much going on in the garden aside from picking tomatoes and green beans.
Spent a few more hours during the week working on the pond.
Leaving early in the AM for a badly needed vacation in sunny Pensacola Florida. At least as of now it’s supposed to be mostly sunny while we’re down there. If that hurricane doesn’t make a hard left it should be decent weather for us.
#1 Son, DiL, and two year old #1 Granddaughter are going to join us. It will be her first time going to the beach. It always makes me smile when I watch someone who’s never been to the ocean just stare in awe at the sight.
Thank you for letting us know about Marcella! I’ve been wondering about her, even before the hurricanes.
“Healthy food and desire for additional independence got me into this gardening hobby. When the garden slows down, the homesteading/cooking ‘heats’ up.”
Exactly!
Just got back from a Garden Raid and have another two baskets of tomatoes and peppers to deal with. I’ll be making two final batches of salsa and one last batch of roasted tomato sauce...because the last batch turned out so well!
Beau is Up North at our cabin, Bear Hunting. No tag this season, so he’s guiding and assisting others and will be heading up to MI next week for more; it’s only 2 hours from where he already is. So far, one standard-sized black bear, just shy of 200# for a 17 year old girl; her first! She did a great job, one shot, one kill...which is how you’d always like it to go.
The ‘Sh#t Wagon’ is going back and forth across the house yard; the local dairy farmer who rents our crop land knows it’s time to clean out the barns before winter and add all that YUMMY manure to the crop land all around us. I sure hope the wind is blowing AWAY from the house, today, LOL!
I love fall best of all and will be stopping at a few of the FABULOUS Farmer’s Markets we have in the area for fall-ish things. I need apples and a few pumpkins for the porch and some other fun things. My porch pots are pooping out, so it’s time to refresh for fall!
Weather has been nice; high-40’s at night and low 70’s during the day; perfect, IMHO. A few area trees are starting to turn, but not too much, yet. We’ll have weeks and weeks of beautiful color ahead of us; we’ve had plenty of rain and that always results in very pretty fall colors from our native Oak, Birch and Maple.
Will be adding more lettuces and spinach, and I have turnips that still need a week or so before I pull them. Garlic is on order, and of course I’ll put in more tulip and daffodil bulbs for Spring color. I love them so much!
It’s been another great trip around the sun! The skies were so clear last week that we could see The Milky Way from our front porch. It’s such a BLESSING to live where we do. I pinch myself most days. The BEST decision I’ve ever made was taking Beau up on his proposal. It’s a lot of work but it’s a lot of fun, too.
Life Is Good! :)
Central Konnecticut - poor year for almost everything in our gardens, except we had a bumper crop of eggplant - go figure!
Well we actually got enough of everything to eat and share, but there was nothing left over to put up - that could be deadly in a different era (maybe an era to come?)
I haven't been on Freerepublic much in the last few weeks - trying to finish a couple of library books (Bleak House by Dickens - couldn't put it down).
Thanks again for the detailed report, greeneyes, and God bless you and yours.