The gardens are a bit discouraging. The real downside is the lack of potatoes. I dug 15 plants this morning for just a few pounds. With how much it is hurting my back to dig, I am seriously considering leaving what is left in the ground.
Back, in my last post, I was about to go squirrel hunting with Phoebe. Saw some tree rats, but she could not zero in on one. Oh well. We did get the tree stand up for my nephew Ben and his dad. A nice two-seater ladder stand in an area where trails converge heading down to a stream. I hope they get one or two.
I did make hot sauce this week from the Lemon Drop peppers, enough to last through a year. The tomato plants in my yard are also still giving tomatoes which is nice. The Siberian varieties have come back, after appearing dead in the heat, to set a nice late flush of tomatoes. Rumi Banjan continue to kick out a gallon or so of tomatoes every 4 or 5 days which is really impressive. Orange Strawberry tomato finally ripened a few and they are beautiful
I would post photos, but the digital camera we picked up last winter has a “lens error” and will not focus or take photos.
The chicken run was my area of concentration yesterday. I spent the entire morning shoveling out the old woodchips, hauling a couple of yards of new chips down, and getting things set for winter. Chickens were quite happy about all of that. Once I was done I went into the inside coop and found that while I was working they had given us another 10 eggs. <smile> nice of them. Maybe just showing their appreciation.
Kids are going to Aunt Karen’s for the afternoon. A client gave us a gift certificate to an all you can eat sushi bar that Patti and I are going to go gorge ourselves on. <smile> I can eat a lot of good raw tuna.
With the lack of activity on the gardens I have been concentrating on office work more, and getting ready for deer hunting. I am going to need a few more deer than I usually try for to really stuff the freezers this year. Especially with another kid arriving in late winter.
<smile> so it is onward and upward.
