Love that winter squash!
Here is the majority of our winter squash harvest (some have already been eaten). Four cookie sheets of pie pumpkins are baking now; I plan to bake, puree and freeze most of them over the next week or...
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I haven’t been very good with blogging regularly about what’s going on around here, so it’s time for a This and That post… Last month, Jonathan and I waited for a couple of hours in my backup OB’s...
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I mentioned in a recent This and That post that we had most of our garden planning done and were looking forward to getting started. Well, we finally had the mulch for our beds delivered today!...
View ArticleSaturday Garden Work
Saturday found us back out in the garden, and once again Jonathan and the Blessings acomplished a great deal (pictures below). We have also revised our garden plans for this year a bit. Midway through...
View ArticleWhew!
Well, we’ve been super busy the last couple of weeks… busy getting over a nasty virus that we acquired somewhere and unwittingly passed on to an unfortunately large number of people while we were at...
View ArticleAnother Sort of Garden Work
Today, we did a little work in the front “flower garden.” That gets quotation marks because, since we moved here, we have seen very few flowers in the raised bed out front. However, my assumption has...
View ArticleTime for a This-and-That
House stuff – we’re making progress! The main living areas are pretty much settled, except the library, which needs a ton of work (floor patched so that we can put up bookcases in a currently unusable...
View ArticleGifts abounding
Gifts #501 – 531 Seeds in the ground at last The contagious love of planting Unexpected opportunity A full-time job for J Budgeting potentialities and challenges My wind chimes singing steadily on the...
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The garden is almost done for the year. Last week we gathered a large harvest before the first freeze of the year. The Blessings and I also spent about an hour covering tomato and pepper plants with...
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