On 11/19/2016 7:38 AM, songbird wrote:
the beets are picked and that last
garden is cleaned up and ready for
winter. we'll be pickling them Sunday.
today i may take some of the smaller
ones and clean them up and steam them
for us to eat.

whatever else i can do from now on
will be me getting ahead of the spring
projects. now that's a thought...
probably the first time since when i
started helping out here that this has
happened.

kinda scary and it's not even halloween
any more...

our 70F day yesterday was so nice that
i had the garden shed foamed in and done
pretty early, so i went out with a garden
pillow, sat in the sunshine and picked the
beets. i dunno how good they are, but i
bit one to see and it seemed ok. it took
me about an hour and a half to get the
beets picked and about 45 minutes to dig
the hole, scrape the squash vines and
beet tops and weeds from the surface in
there and bury it again.

came in and made a nice dinner of toast
and hot chocolate and was relaxing when Ma
came home with a double cheeseburger and a
turtle sundae. i haven't been that full in
a long time. to say the least once i
crawled back into the futon and got warm
again i was very sleepy, but did manage
to stay awake the rest of the evening until
a more proper bed-time came around.

yes, i know, i live a very exciting life.
now i have to figure out what to do
today... hmm...


songbird

Wife is out picking kale, peppers, and eggplant at this time, probably
some lettuces too. Looks like she's getting ready to go to her church
and deliver some grub to the pantry there. The kale plant is nearly five
feet tall and looks like a palm tree, there were to others also but they
gave up the ghost earlier in the fall.

Yesterday was mid-seventies, it's mid-forties this morning and a freeze
is forecast for next week. It's summer one day, winter the next, strange
weather.

George