Yes, the Hill Country got hit with 20s this week. It was early. I got out and picked the garden the day before. I got ONE Cherokee tomato. ONE all season and it had some bug sting it so was gone before I could get it. Still, saved the seeds to crossing fingers those will sprout later. Got a couple pint freezer bags of tomatoes put up and one or two more if they ripen on trays. Brought in all the peppers which will go to the freezer, too. Picked a pot of greens which will be one the table tonight. Didn’t get all the greens because there was a POISON IVY in the middle of them! No, it’s not the same poison whatever that I had a few months ago but it’s in that same bed so it might have come from the same lettuces package, grrr. I’ve never had poison ivy there before this year. I’m surprised I’m not broken out head to toe, whew. Hubby dug it up but broke the root so... There were some carrots nearby so will wait until next week to see if they survived the freeze. I don’t want to go anywhere out there until we get a good rain to maybe wash away any poison ivy residue but the rain chances have been cancelled and hubby put up the hoses for the winter.
Maybe kiddos will be in for the holidays and they can help putting the garden to bed. The utility service tree trimmers were here this week so they stomped all over it. I told them they could go in there but they weren’t careful but maybe that didn’t matter. Ugh, STILL, after 45 years, they didn’t cut the big limb that WILL bring down the lines because it’s laying on them - no that’s the electric line, no that’s the cable line, no that’s the phone line so it’s not our problem. Fine by me when the entire neighborhood goes down and they’ll have more problems than cutting the @#(&$#&@* limb now or decades ago. But I have bigger problems this week. Our water heater blew a fuse and caught the insulation on fire. Thankfully, hubby up at 4 am getting ready to head to the panhandle and was right next to it when it happened. No one has the right size and are telling us the week after Thanksgiving. We finally found one and can get it out here next week. Hubby had already had to delay his trip a day to get his pickup repaired so after this he had to get someone else to go so that’s another thing, blah. With so much crazy stuff, maybe his guardian angel was telling him not to go.
Does anyone know anything about spiders? I had a teeny little one that was smaller than a sugar ant and brown. I think that was what bit me. A horrid puss pocket pop up quickly and then my whole calf got all swollen and red. My leg is still tight feeling and red but I think I got all the ick out of the hole it left.