Posted on 11/05/2022 7:22:33 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Beau plants a brassica mix in one of his food plots for the deer. They love it.
They like salt blocks too!
Yummy!
Glad you liked it.
BIL & SIL were here, yesterday. Our sunsets are around 4:30pm now, so Jan & I went outside to close up the greenhouse and watch the sunset. Both of them were born and raised here and they must've taken 20 pictures of the sunset. I said, 'How can this be so exciting to you? YOU get to watch the sun set over the ocean!' and she replied, 'Oh, sunsets over land are SO much prettier.'
I guess you always want what you don't immediately have!
If they want salt, they’ll have to come into the barnyard and wrestle Ithaca and Chuck for their salt & mineral blocks, LOL!
Wow, that’s quite a change in temps! Today is in the low 70s. Tomorrow’s high will be low 50’s, and after that it will be highs in the 30s, so we are right behind you! I better get outside and get the last few chores done. To do (always) is to gather the small limbs and twigs for kindling, and to move the seasoned wood up closer to the racks nearer to the house.
Sunsets, no matter where, are beautiful endings to the day. Since you’ve mentioned it, I’m going to try to be more observant of the ones in my own backyard.
Have a blessed day!
Thank you! You, too.
I think as soon as the rain hits, my ‘inside job’ will be to put away my summer clothes and haul out the jeans, flannels and sweaters!
Mars in 2022! Near moon tonight and tomorrow (It will probably be raining here tonight. Maybe you can see this.
"Mars is drawing ever-nearer to its opposition on December 8. That's when Earth will fly between Mars and the sun, and the distance between the 2 worlds will be the least for this 2-year period. Mars is already slightly brighter than Sirius, the sky's brightest star. And it's very red in color! Don't miss Mars! Read all about it." More at link.
There will be an occulation on December 7th.
We are enough further east of you that we get a two day reprieve.
Today is supposed to be sunny and gorgeous, and tomorrow warm and overcast with rain later in the day.
I also am finishing up the last few things before the weather turns.
For mulching the asparagus and garlic, I have heard that it should be done after the ground freezes to prevent heaving, although some people say do it before.
My garlic is just beginning to poke up because it’s been so warm.
So which is better? Before or after the ground freezes?
Once the outside work is done, my inside work is quilting.
Always something to keep me from going stir crazy.
Rain tonight (T-storms!) and cloudy all week. BUT if there’s a break, I will certainly look!
Got all my outside chores done, and as an added bonus, I planted two bags of Tulips I forgot I had. Something else to look forward to come Spring.
I also picked my two HUGE red cabbages and they gave me a bunch of cute little baby cabbages, too. Now, to decide what to do with it, aside from fermenting some. ;)
And salad greens - I have enough to feed an Army right now, so it’s gonna be salads and some MEAT 3x a day - which will help with the low-carb/Keto/fasting program we’re on. We were doing WW, but we need to speed things up a bit.
According to local radar, rain should be starting about 4pm.
I am officially DONE for the season. Yay!
My soil is plenty warm and we’re not going to warm up again now until Spring, so I just mulched everything now, when I had the time and the leaves to do it.
(Asparagus; I didn’t plant any garlic this fall - I over-planted for us last fall.)
If it doesn’t matter, I’m going to do it tomorrow while it is still mild and before it rains.
I also have some lavender to put to bed for the winter, and have been waiting until it gets cold enough. I figure as long as the weather is mild, stuff is better left out than mulched. I didn’t want to mulch it any longer than I had to.
I can grow just about anything, but I’ve never had good luck with Lavender - even in pots. It’s too cold here for it to overwinter, though I had a friend with a south-facing brick foundation on her house and hers would come back each year, even in Zone 5.
Brought my three Rosemary pots in for the winter; this will be Year Three if they make it! They’re in south-facing windows, on humidity trays and get ‘spritzed’ with the water bottle a few times a week. My cats don’t like that bottle; I used it to train them to stay off the kitchen counters...which they SOMETIMES deign to do! ;)
Last year, I had read that burying the lavender in wood chips helped them survive. So I did that and they came back.
In CNY, I had lavender come back every year without doing anything special. It usually got buried in snow so that may have protected it.
I understand that lavender does not like wet feet or soggy ground, so I planted mine on a slope near the house that gets enough sun in the summer. I don’t know if it’s close enough to the house to affect the climate zone rating, because face it, -20 is -20 no matter how you slice it.
I’ll do the wood chips thing again and let you know next spring how it worked out.
Excellent. :)
We have “Nicole” remnants headed our way with possible severe weather. Squalls tomorrow afternoon & into the evening, should clear out on Saturday - “quickly” they say.
Our thunderstorms are breaking up. BUT the front is moving in. They’re talking snow on the ground by morning. Just a little, nothing even shovel-worthy. 72 today, 30 by morning.
I love Winter. I love hibernating. I love ‘Sweater Weather.’ Fireplace. A basket of yarn. Stack of movies I’ve been waiting to watch all summer. I can tend to and talk to my houseplants if I get bored. Eating canned goods I’ve put up in the summer months.
A snowy season would be welcomed! I love the winter sports, too. Snowshoeing, riding our Vintage Arctic Cats (I think they’re from the 80’s. His & Hers models; a Valentine Gift back when we were just dating), ice fishing and marathon snow shoveling sessions. :)
And after? Hot Chocolate with Peppermint Schnaps. ;)
Life is good year ‘round on The Frozen Tundra. :)
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