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 …
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 …
Yesterday afternoon we set out to take the pups for a much needed run up in the foothills. It's been ages since we did some dry land mushing and it was pretty apparent right away that they had all but forgotten how to mush after spending the summer lounging by the pool, napping in the …
As bloggers we often inspire each other and this week my inspiration came from a comment left by a fellow aspiring homesteader, RootingforSunshine. We were chatting back and forth on my post, It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Fall Now and she mentioned how she'd like to grow white pumpkins which set the hamster …
