The yard is full of leaves, and we get a few persimmons each day. Several lemons are ripe - makes fine lemonade. They have more juice, thinner skins, and are sweeter than lemons from the grocery.
Branson was beautiful and the weather outstanding. I got my exercise daily/faithfully walking up and down the landing and window shopping. The food at the conference was outstanding every day and I was able to stick very close to my lower carb eating plan. Not a single rubber chicken anywhere on the menus.
Such a difference this year over last for me personally too. I was able to attend every single session without needing caffeine galore to keep me going. Even the luncheon speaker - a Doctor was as entertaining as all get out.
Hope all is well with you and yours. Prayers up for all. Have a great Halloween weekend.
my garden is asleep but the good news is somebody had concord grapes for free and I scored!...grapes slowly cooking on the stove as we speak....more juice for the pantry....
Getting much-needed rain again here in N. Central Texas (after last week’s flooding :)) We went from the wettest May on record, to a “flash drought” over the summer, to wet again this fall. Crazy.
The people smarter than us are calling for a wetter, colder winter. Anyone know what the Farmers Almanac says?
Pinging the List.
Almost November, and we have not had a freeze yet in eastern Nebraska. I have a couple pots on the porch with variety plants. The marigolds apparently dropped some seeds into the river rock (landscape) below the pots, and I now have THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, huge marigolds growing there. I need to remember to save the seeds. When people ask me why they are so big and full, I give credit to God, as the only thing I have done is dump a little water on them every few days.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween and weekend. They are saying we’ll see 70+ degrees again, early next week.
Oh, Yeah, and GO ROYALS!
We’ve gotten some badly-needed rain in Central Missouri over the past week and every drop has soaked in. There’s not a puddle left anywhere in the pond. I’m hoping it will dig a bit easier now.
We got a very heavy frost last night. Probably will be the end of the tomatoes for this year.
Immoderate rain in my patch of Central Tx. with 4.6 inches falling in 4 hours and a little shy of 6 inches total. As usual with this much rain we're flooded in with roads in all directions impassable. It happens about once a year here, sometimes more, sometimes less and as long as we don't lose electricity it's not bad.
Lots of erosion and mulch moving in the yard but nothing that hasn't happened before and will happen again.
We did have an Eggplant feast earlier this week with five nice sized fruit off of one plant and four still on the other.
Lemons are really getting yellow. A bumper crop this year.
Fall tomatoes are still green, think it might be close for vine ripe.
Glug, glug.
Spent the entire day taking everything out of the greenhouse, sterilizing the greenhouse with bleach, sterilizing everything I took out of the greenhouse and moving it back in. Just two short months and it will be time to begin starting seedlings for the 2016 season. It’s going to be a very busy winter as I have contracted to grow several thousand transplants for a fellow farmer, on top of the thousands I grow for myself.
My next big project is to get about 500 tomato cages that I grow heirloom tomatoes in, out of the field and get them sterilized and stacked.
We had about 10 persimmons this year on our small tree. Just as they were ripe, most were consumed by pests. (Wife’s relatives.)
All I have left in my garden is Kale, which I am sick to DEATH of at this point, and some lettuces - which I never tire of. :)
My garden is all cleaned out and the raised beds are mulched with straw...if all goes well, I’ll sell my little farm quickly in the spring and it’s the next guys problem! Moving to Beau’s farm. Movin’ on up from 1.2 acres to 160!! Wa-Hooo!
This winter I will make salsa from the tomatoes I have in the freezer and a fresh batch of Hot Pepper Jelly is on the Things To Do List, too.
And that’s a wrap for 2015. :)
Finally had our first hard frost last night. Can’t complain. It’s usually quite a bit earlier here in NW Iowa.
Garden’s done. Freezers and canning jars are all full.
Praise the Lord.
First rains since the spring floods. Yee haw!
YAY! Just about any outing is a good outing. The eating season is upon us. We can pay in January (& pay. And pay.) but it will be fun while it lasted.
Mercy. I am up to my eyeballs in pumpkin decorated cookies. I. Never. Want to see them. Again. But oooo lemons! I made a lemon bread recipe last week that was just excellent.
The word here is Get a boat. But it’s fixin to cool off, which will make the dogs happy & the mommy, too. We needed the rain. We just didn’t need quite so much.
Hope everybody’s doing good- fat n happy. Happy Halloween to you, too, greeneyes. Where are those turnips big enough to make a jack-o-lantern out of? One of these years….
God Bless everyone.
20F a couple of nights ago. Knew it was coming, so got the last of the beets & carrots out; taters were already dug. Needless to say, gardening is finished for the year.
Have a happy Halloween, and looking forward to next year.
Glad to hear you’re doing so well!
I haven’t posted in a long while . . . the garden is a wreck. We got a puppy in late August and are so busy with him that I’ve put everything else on the back burner. So I have nothing to report. Hope everyone is doing well. I’ll be so glad when life gets back to normal! :p