I was going to say exactly what Snoopy is saying!!
Thanks for the new thread :-)
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“November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.”
- Elizabeth Coatsworth
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“How silently they tumble down
And come to rest upon the ground
To lay a carpet, rich and rare,
Beneath the trees without a care,
Content to sleep, their work well done,
Colors gleaming in the sun.
At other times, they wildly fly
Until they nearly reach the sky.
Twisting, turning through the air
Till all the trees stand stark and bare.
Exhausted, drop to earth below
To wait, like children, for the snow.”
- Elsie N. Brady, Leaves
I think Snoopy speaks for all of us. Many thanks for the new thread!
Morning all. I am very grateful for this thread, my friends here and FR in general. Having a garden this year and reading all your posts has really helped me this season. In May after my hubby passed I thought I would never garden again. Well that changed and while it was about half of what it usually is, I had a garden. And the only thing growing now are some new garlic shoots for next year. Always a green promise for next year. Love you guys, MWH
The weather is supposed to be fairly mild for another week and a half at least, according to the long range forecast.
THANK GOD for that. We still have a LOT to do before the snow flies.
Thanksgiving is only 3.7 weeks from today.
Very insightful cartoon. We need to take Time by it’s collar, shake it, and slow it down.
Ahhh...November...thanks, Diana, for the reminder...and your continued posting of this thread...a delight in a sometimes dreary time!
Ah November. The month when you first realize it’s almost next year.
We got a little quarterly bonus plus I’ve been able to start saving a little moola. This week I should be able to buy everything I need to get the tunnel closed in. My next three days off will be sunny and near 70. Gotta do some auto repair one of those days.
It's mating season again for the stupid damn deers. They destroyed - absolutely shredded - three of my chestnut trees Friday night. There were three bucks and ten-ish does having a deer orgy in my back pasture that evening. I guess they moved to the orchard field to finish up.
Our Arab mare has an untreatable arthritic disease that has gotten progressively worse over the past months so we've decided to end the suffering and put her down before the weather turns cold. The vet is out there now with #1 Marine Daughter doing the deed. I rented a mini excavator on Friday to prepare a burial site for her. Used the machine to dig out a few posts in the arena fence that needed to be replaced, and spent a couple hours digging tree sprouts from a spot on the property that I've been reclaiming from Mother Nature.
I didn't get much of anything done in the kitchen garden over the weekend, but I did get my raspberry patch planted. My buddy Nick gifted me two dozen plants that he thinned out of his patch. We'd been planning this for awhile so I had the planting site well-prepped ahead of time. It didn't take long at all to stick the plants in the ground.
I'm still getting tomatoes and peppers. It probably won't be long before we get a killing frost so we're enjoying them while we can.