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Love your blown glass-looking hummingbirds and bugs! Do they light up? I really like these. Most of my solar lights were just the cheapest white lights available, but I changed their colors to orange and some to green, by filling some with colored beads, and using colored duct tape on others.

Cool that you competed in endurance rides. I suspect your own endurance by far out weighs my own! We used to condition for and ride on competitive trail rides, but those are much tamer. Your horses must have been really wiped out if you had to call for a rescue trailer! Most of our...

I'm too lazy to make mead, but I buy it! I've been busy the past two days. First I moved an orange solar light from up the steep hill behind the house to down below in the more civilized picnic area. The path to reach it is getting overgrown with brambles that I don't feel like doing battle...

Very sorry for your loss. RIP sweet dog.

We're having sunny warm weather with colder nights. Peak foliage season has passed, but I did take a 'before' picture a week ago, as well as an 'after' shot today. From the dog yard: Edges of sugar maples were just starting to color up and all the tiny red crabapples are on my tree. (This is...

Just beautiful!

Not sure if this belongs on a weather thread or not, but the foliage this year has been gorgeous. At first it began as sort of drab shades of orange and yellow, but then last week the cool temperatures caused dramatic bright reds to appear, and those dull oranges to transform into vibrant...

Feast or famine, that seems the way too often.

Yes, no effort is too small.

I'm too scared to try canning for fear of poisoning myself and/or someone else. Just call me chicken! Even back when I made jam and sealed the jars with wax, I didn't trust it enough to store in the cupboard, but kept the jars in the fridge. Anyways these frozen tomatoes are already...

Oh Ick! That must be horrible.

I chopped up the lone last fresh tomato into a salad last night. Ah, it's grocery store tomatoes from now on, until next summer's harvest. A sad thought. I plan to use my little indoor grow kit to provide me with salad greens this winter. Soon I will get inspired to turn the many bags of...

Finally we got the hard frost I've been waiting for, the night before last. I emptied out flowerpots and containers yesterday, brought metal garden structures into the barn for winter. I left a few pots of geraniums on the front porch that survived the frost because I didn't have the heart to...

I live in a dead zone with no cell service, so it's landline or nothing here. Many years ago my dad once loaned us one of those old school car phones for a trip to his beach house. It was called a "bag phone" because it was literally in a bag. In more recent times we got flip phones for our...

This morning I'd have to say: When the Frost is on the Punkin By James Whitcomb Riley Because last night we finally had that hard frost I've been wishing for. Now I can start emptying out flower pots, cleaning out beds, and bringing in garden decor for the winter.

More truth to this little commentary than anything.

Good luck with that!

People are born daytime persons or night owls, I'm convinced of it. Working on the third shift, I felt bad for day people relegated to night work and fighting to stay awake throughout the shift, then unable to sleep when they got home. Typically these folks would transfer to a day shift as...

Oh you morning people! LOL I've been a night owl all my life and would sleep until noon if my dog didn't wake me up around 9 in the morning. I'll wake up a few times during the night often because Mabel (dog) wakes me up. (We girls need to pee, but then it's right back to bed!)

Fascinating that your hummingbirds don't migrate, but rather sort of hibernate. I had no idea they could do that.