Jo Sitting On Her Bucket

Our unseasonably warm weather on Tuesday (up to 76°F/24°C) convinced Jo to toss out her pre-planned list of chores and work in the garden instead.  She's weeding a strawberry bed.

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Jo Sitting On Her Bucket

Garden 2009: Jo Weeding Our Strawberries

Jo weeding a strawberry bed.

(Photo:  Marvin Smith on 11/7/09)

It may be late fall.
The temperatures are cooler.
The days are shorter.
All the trees' leaves are on the ground.
But the weeds are still growing.

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Garden 2009: Jo Weeding Our Strawberries

Begging For Zucchini

What happens when you take a short trip and leave the garden unattended for a couple of days? Monster zucchinis try to take over the place. Rusty and Bucket like raw zucchini and know Jo usually gives them a slice of the overgrown squash before tossing the rest in the compost. They are waiting not very patiently for their treat.

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Begging For Zucchini

New Potatoes Planted

                                                  (Photo taken on 03/17/09 by Marvin)

Jo planting our potatoes.

One bed down; ten left to be planted.

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New Potatoes Planted

Feeding the Birds

Jo's replacing the feeder she filled with a pseudo-suet mixture (cornmeal, peanut butter, lard). A light snow is falling while the temperature hovers right at the freezing mark. No accumulation is forecast.

(I just checked our forecast again.  Now NOAA says we could get an inch of snow today and another half inch this evening.  We're still not likely to get snowed in.)

Feeding the Birds

Journal: Monday, 10/27/08

Early Morning:

► Midnight: Down to 47ºF/7ºC and dropping. Gusty north wind has not abated. Chilly out considering I'm dressed for our mid-day 77º.


► 3:00 AM: Down to 41ºF/5ºC outside and 65ºF/18ºC inside. Time to crank up the wood stove before the house loses any more heat. Surprisingly, the north wind seems to have mostly laid, at least for the moment.

Late Morning:

► Sunny, breezy and 42º/5º @ 10 AM. Thermometer says temperature only fell to 36º/2º overnight, but there's a thin ice layer on the birdbath. Methinks the thermometer pickup is located too close to the house.

► Sunny and 51º/10º at noon. It would be almost pleasant outdoors were the north wind not gusty so strongly. Always staying in the sunshine and out of the wind is tricky.


Afternoon:

► Back from PM walk ... 51F/10C @ 5 PM. The north wind that came up again this AM seems to be laying now. Seems warm inside the house after walking. Wish I hadn't thrown those last couple of logs into the wood stove.



► After our end of season harvesting over the past couple of days, we didn't bother turning the electric fence back on. There really wasn't anything needing protection from the deer left out in the garden. This afternoon I saw a doe cautiously approach the garden and then slip inside. She never made it as far as any ot the plants before getting spooked. Now, does the deer entering the garden on the first day the fence was off demonstrate how well the fence is keeping out the deer? Or, was it just a coincidence? I don't know but suspect a little of both -- and probably more of a coincidence. The fence has been off many times.

Evening:

► Spent some time in the basement getting som spoons made.

All photos take on today's afternoon walk.

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Journal: Monday, 10/27/08

Unloading the Kiln

Jo found the remote shutter thingy and decided to photograph herself unloading the kiln after a glaze firing.

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Unloading the Kiln