This year has been challenging to many folks on all sorts of levels the world over. Now that we’re a week away from Thanksgiving here in America, I realized I also had many things to be grateful for this year.
Continue reading “Pondering what to be thankful for in 2020”…on Nov 8th with it being 30°F outside! Going down to 18°F tonight. Continue reading “Finally emptied the rain barrel…”
I knew snow was coming, but it wasn’t until I saw the updated prediction for how much that I got my butt in gear and went out to gather some things from the woodsy pile. I also made sure all of the snow and ice removal tools were back inside the house and not in the garage. Continue reading “Mad dash Thursday”
I noticed yesterday that the older corn stalk was looking a bit worse for (weather) wear. We meant to do our rounds yesterday, but other busy-ness got in the way and I realized after it was too dark that we didn’t do our walkabout which is when I planned to check what corn is still on the stalk. Continue reading “Frosty corn”
It might melt by the time the sun comes up to try to take a picture, but a bit of the white stuff fell from the sky over the course of the night. Barely a dusting, but still snow. Continue reading “Fall, snow!”
This is a “why the postings slowed to a crawl” update for those that may be wondering. Later this week, actual posts related to the garden will happen here, as things have settled down here a bit.
My partner is home and among other topics we discussed, one was first frost date for this year. My printed copy of 2018 Farmer’s Almanac had Worcester as the closest city listed, and that was said to be happening on October 19th which I just recently added to our planting page. (Which I will note the change on after I post this.) Continue reading “Hoo boys–first frost possibly earlier?”
