Lovely. And GREAT porcelain weave pattern on cup. Impressed.
Here in the Inner Banks of eastern North Carolina, we had our first freeze of the fall.
Joy in the death of bugs, crab grass and annual weeds. Again tomorrow morning and perhaps a normal rather than a mild winter.
What did you preserve (in any way) from your garden that you'll enjoy over the holidays or throughout the winter months?
Please feel free to share favorite Holiday recipes this month too, for whatever is 'traditional' in your family, or a new recipe you want to try.
(Hat Tip to Mom With Hope.)
VERY cold here - 22° last night, won’t get above freezing until noon. When the wind blows, it’s downright frigid! 🥶 I am looking at insulated Carhart jackets - something warm, windproof, & tough enough to work in outside.
I have 2 projects in the shop today & 2 fairly quick ones outside. The wind isn’t blowing as hard as yesterday, so maybe the outside projects will happen - I had to quit on one yesterday afternoon because of the wind.
We have a forwarding order at our former house for mail. They do not forward catalogs. My SIL keeps the mailbox cleaned out so I got two seed catalogs from her over Thanksgiving. It’s “killing” me to see all the things I want to grow & I have no raised beds/garden. I have fingers crossed that sometime in January, all the projects that are house-related will slow to a trickle (or stop!) so I can build some raised beds.The 4 galvanized beds need digging up & transporting from the old house, too.
My niece dug up, cleaned, & has stored her dahlia tubers as of last weekend. She has promised me some & she’s also starting Snap Dragons in the spring & says she will give me some of them as well (I tried starting from seed one year with no luck). My grandmother here in the Valley always had Snap Dragons & I love them, plus they are gorgeous in bouquets.
I saw a recipe for a hot apple cider drink in one of the recipe books I just bought - don’t think I will make that particular one, but there are lots of mulled apple cider recipes online - I am craving something hot & spiced for when I am through outside & can thaw out & for sipping on during the big football game tonight :-)
The tomato plants are kaput, as are the tomatoes (and green peppers) that I forgot to pick before the recent light freezes here. Felt like I was at a funeral. :-)
But the memory of actually having succeeded at something garden-wise will hold me over till the spring. (I tell myself that the exertion of turning the soil by hand will render me irresistible. Ha ha.)