It's so sad to watch my beautiful pumpkin vines shrivel up and wither away, but it is fall now (well, almost) so, yeah. It was bound to happen, right? I just wish all of our pumpkins had ripened before now. We did manage to harvest quite a few though; some ripe and some not-so-ripe. I …
We are supposed to dip down into the low 30's Monday night, so that means we either have to harvest the last of the peas, pumpkins and cucumbers or risk losing them. There are quite a few that are ready or close to ready but there are a lot of them that aren't, so I …
I can tell we are moving into autumn because I am wanting to sleep in later and later every day. With so many huskies in at night, we sleep with the window open (otherwise we'd suffocate!) and it's getting quite chilly over night now. Which makes snuggling under the blankets with an extra layer of …
The sun hasn't set on our 2021 garden season yet. We still have quite a few things growing out there and new stuff is popping up every day it seems. The peas are really loving this cooler weather and have taken off again. The pumpkins are still growing new ones even though the first ones …
Just before dawn this morning our young rooster decided today was the day to practice his crowing skills. It sounded more like a dying coyote but in time he'll get it, I'm sure. The sound woke the pups up, too, and they became restless so we had to get up and calm them down before …
