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Mild and damp this past week here in Central Missouri. We got ~1.5" of badly-needed rainfall over the course of the week. Light frost Saturday night.

It's mating season again for the stupid damn deers. They destroyed - absolutely shredded - three of my chestnut trees Friday night. There were three bucks and ten-ish does having a deer orgy in my back pasture that evening. I guess they moved to the orchard field to finish up.

Our Arab mare has an untreatable arthritic disease that has gotten progressively worse over the past months so we've decided to end the suffering and put her down before the weather turns cold. The vet is out there now with #1 Marine Daughter doing the deed. I rented a mini excavator on Friday to prepare a burial site for her. Used the machine to dig out a few posts in the arena fence that needed to be replaced, and spent a couple hours digging tree sprouts from a spot on the property that I've been reclaiming from Mother Nature.

I didn't get much of anything done in the kitchen garden over the weekend, but I did get my raspberry patch planted. My buddy Nick gifted me two dozen plants that he thinned out of his patch. We'd been planning this for awhile so I had the planting site well-prepped ahead of time. It didn't take long at all to stick the plants in the ground.

I'm still getting tomatoes and peppers. It probably won't be long before we get a killing frost so we're enjoying them while we can.

Very sad about your Arab mare, but there comes a time when you do what’s best for them ... my sympathies. Over the 40 years I had horses, I had to put down 4 horses & we had an elderly pony who died on her own out in the pasture. That was hard enough, but then I had to find someone to bury them... not an easy task. You’re fortunate to have that mini-excavator.

“There were three bucks and ten-ish does having a deer orgy in my back pasture that evening. I guess they moved to the orchard field to finish up.”

No pictures - PLEASE, LOL!

Nice that you can bury the mare at home where she belongs. Beau STILL complains about the $1,500.00 it cost him to have his wife’s horse cremated (he was widowed in 2010) so she could spread the ashes around here. ‘Shy Anne’ was a really cool horse, though! I knew Linda since I was a teen, and Shy Anne a number of years later.

He also asked me who the dog is on my computer screen, and why am I ‘cheating’ on all my other dogs? LOL!

Augie;

Sorry about your mare! Glad you had options other than calling a knacker.

Deer....maybe time to wrap some rabbit fencing around any chestnut tree left standing and wrap it with barbed wire until the tree calipher is 4 or 5 inches?

I pulled up any remaining pepper and tomato plants today and accumulated a small bucket of green tomatos... mostly Pineapple and Aunt Rubies green. I had some leeks I planted in the spring that were growing in between the tomatoes, forgotten, small, and not pickable, so I hand tilled around them and fertilized and watered them and will see how they do this winter. Estonian Garlic and topsetting Egyptian Walking onion were planted. Some rows of turnips are are about 3 inches up and growing. Will need to cover them Sunday and Monday morning. (20F will be heading your way!) I will till the rest and hope the bird have anything turned up.

Mrs. Augie....happy to be retired??