The Garden Thread - November, 2025

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Ing Crust 2 c fave cookie crumbs ¼ cup butter (melted) Filling ¼ cup p/butter (Jif is good) 16 oz room temp cr/cheese ¾ c br/sugar, ¼ c Greek yogurt 1 tsp vanilla 2 lge eggs 2 tbl flour Topping 7 oz sweetened condensed milk (½ can) ¾ c dk choc/chips chp Reese's garnish

Method Press combined crumbs/butter into 8" springform bottom. Add filling
ing beaten smooth. Bake. Fridge uncovered 3 hours. Cover/cool overnight to set.

Final: Micro combined sweetened condensed milk, choc/chips 30 sec, then stir. Can heat in 10 sec intervals stirring to melt. Pour sauce over cheesecake; garnish top w/ chp Reese's p/butter cups.

Everyone had a good time on the hayride. Howard got to go along and from what I was told afterwards he was a very good boy and seemed to enjoy himself. Mrs. Augie and I got most of the mess picked up yesterday. I placed a few of the straw bales around Howard's beach cabana and put the rest away in the barn to stay dry until I need them.

My buddy Nick came by after lunchtime yesterday. We spent about three hours in the woods with chainsaw and loppers cleaning up sprouts/grapevine/bush honeysuckle/wild rose/etc. downrange from the hunting condos. With the shooting lanes cleared all that's left to do to be ready for deer blasting season is to pull out the blunderbusses and make sure they're hitting where they're aimed. Season opens on Saturday. Our freezers are full so anything that Mrs. Augie bags will be donated to someone who needs it. Nick has freezer space so he'll hunt from my spot.

I parked Nanner out in the pasture Saturday afternoon so he wouldn't be in the way of turning around the hayride. Naturally the weather snapped off cold so he wouldn't start yesterday. I'll have to drag the portable generator out there later so I can power up the engine heater and battery charger to get him going and back to the house.

I turned on the power to the horse drinker fountain yesterday after we finished lopping brush. I was pleasantly surprised to find the GFCI breaker hold when the power was applied. It's pretty much normal for something to be wrong so I'm gonna call it a win.

I'm not sure how cold it got here last night but I expect I'll find the tomato and pepper plants folded up when I go out to check them. I'm not really ready to be out of fresh tomatoes, but I'm grateful that they've lasted this long into the season.

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