Posted on 10/19/2019 6:28:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I am indeed. Still alive, kicking, and hobbling along. LOL
Loved your pics this week(well always love them-LOL). Fall is my favorite garden time. All the harvest is done, and the weather is so nice to do the planting for the winter stuff.
I hate Spring planting in Mo. Rainy, Muddy, often too cool for comfort. Ugh. This is the perfect time — I think the wild persimmon tree might have some ripe ones. I’ll have to check—I like to get them fresh daily at breakfast time.
I basically did zero gardening this summer. Barely got the wheat and rye harvested. Garlic and potatoes had a less than optimal yield thanks to clay, rocks, and neglect. Doing better for now.
That is a wonderful sight. We don’t do much any more at christmas. Our family get together is Thanksgiving. The grand kids are almost all gone, married, and have other priorities.
Sometimes our youngest and her youngest get to come. I have a few ceramic decorations that I put out around the house. We have a couple of spot lights that twinkle red, green, and white on the wall.
I do admire the decorations of others.
That’s about all we do but we now have a 3 year old great grand daughter. No Christmas dinner many times as they have their own families...
The only potted plant I have besides seasonal flowers for our upper terrace is a lemon tree. We have a municipal market 5 minutes from the house where we can buy all sorts of seasonal vegetables, fruits and locally caught fish. It’s open 6 days a week so we can buy fresh.
I know I am spoiled. My grand parents always either came to our house or we went to theirs.
With my kids we always went to Springfield to our parents and extended family—Hubby was teaching so we stayed for a week visiting everyone.
My Dad lived with us for the last 5 years of his life, and we always had a house full then. But that’s all changed now. We saw our oldest daughter last January - first time in 3 years—she lives in Montana-works in N. Dakota.
Her daughter graduated from college several years back, got married and lives about 2 hrs. away. My other grand daughter has kids, but she also lives 2 hrs. away, and stays away because her ex lives across the street.
My youngest grand daughter I put on the bus to school daily. She will be graduating from high school soon. She usually goes to her Dad’s for Christmas—that’s the only time she gets to see him—his choice—his father was that way too-so I guess he had no example to see what a real father does.
I just get sad, that my kids and their kids didn’t find a good life partner for their sakes, but also, we’d all be here close enough, and be able to get together more often.
where do you live?....very pretty
I understand. Our son & his wife had no children and our daughter had two.
Yep. Sure cuts down on the family size. Makes me wish I’d had more than 2 kids. LOL
Spain
my one dtr can not have children and lives 375 miles away...my son is divorced and he rarely comes this way....he's about 300miles away.....he splits custody with his ex plus his new girlfriend has children of her own....I guess if they got married the whole bunch would come once in a while...
We were from Springfield area. Both our parents and most nieces nephews and cousins. We moved across the state —St. Louis is about 75 miles away.
We had intended to move back—waited too long. Kids got married, divorced, and their children couldn’t be taken to the other side of the state—part of the divorce settlements.
So we either live here—closer to them than the other side of the state, or move back and just have the extended family of nieces/nephews/etc. So we just sold our property in Springfield and we’ll just stay here.
Thanks for the reminder.......the caramel sugar method was posted awhile ago on another thread.
I’m thinking....... sweetening coffee...then a dollop of he caramel cream..yum.
You’re making great progress in your Fall garden! :)
Hey folks. My skimpy winter garden is doing fine. Didn’t plant any root veggies like ai planned except for my beets which I am still nursing along.
The Seattle area has not yet had a great and should not.get a hard frost for at least another month barring any odd circumstances.
My greehouse tomatoes are still going strong. I had to put a space heater in it however....I would have closed up shop in there but ai took some heirloom tomatoes from.the grocery store and harvested the seeds late in the season.
I sprouted them, planted them when still teeny tiny, and they are going great. I have some good sized (think k 3” x 4”) tomatoes almost ready to ripen.
I want to harvest a few for seeds and eat a couple dozen of the others.
My sister gave me a Meyer lwmon tree and an orange tree in the May, for my bday. They were shipped to me and I forgot about them in the back side of house for 2 weeks.
The Meyer lemon tree survived fine as the plastic wrap around it collected moisture/condensation each night and essentially watered itself just enuf to stay alive.
The orange tree looked deader than a door nail.
I put them both in large pots and kept watering them....even the orange tree....for 3 weeks.
Just when I was going to give up in the orange tree ..bam....a new tiny branch sprouted down low by the ground with nice green leaves.
I clipped off all dead branches and new green sprouts popped countdown blown
The orange tree is a survivor now....still only about 18 inches tall but should be fine.
I wheeled them both into the greehouse for the winter and have gotten 4 or 5 nice sized lemons so far.
The lemon tree has about 80-100 tiny lemons growing and should carry is through the winter when they start ripening the 3nd if next month.
That is you update from Seattle’ish area..
My grandmother (mom’s mom) was an amazing knitter. Her creations (going back to my baptismal outfit...I am 51 btw) were the most beautiful things EVER.
Finest quality and perfect in appearance and fit.
If they sold her sweaters I stores....fisherman’s knit and other smal/fine yarn styles....in stores they would be worth upwards of a thousand dollars these days.
Nothing compared to them....except for,
My mother’s quilts.
Her precision and attention to detail (ironing each piece of fabric before she measured and cut into the sections that she sewed into the pattern squares) was unbelievable.
Any work she created could be framed if they were not so comfortable to use on your bed.
Just amazing.
I think I got my creativity from them and ai am really getting immersed iny photography as I get closer to retiring from my day job.
I am doing a “fall” themed photoshoot with a model soon. If I figure out how to post some photos for free online I will do so.
In the meantime you can see some of my stuff on my Instagram if you shoot me a message....happy to share accounts with those who want to check them out.
“We have a municipal market...Its open 6 days a week so we can buy fresh.”
Its a good thing to have local farmers and gardeners growing your produce, and the walk to the market is good for you!
If ever you do consider another potted plant, there are smaller well behaved Fig trees that would not take over your terrace, could be ornamental and still produce figs. Then again, in Spain they probably grow everywhere wild and it would be like me having a cottonwood tree on my patio! It maybe better to just enjoy the view!
Yes — I am hoping to get it done while I still have some git up and go. This summer my get up and got definitely got up and went. LOL Planted a raised bed in Winter Rye this afternoon.
Had to replant some garlic—darn squirrels dug them up. So I put an old screen door on top of the bed and weighted it with some logs on the sides.
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