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Tired from shovel work. Came in, got cleaned up, had to go out and bring the fitted mattress cover & sheets in to make the bed. Sat down in the lazyboy and listened to this song by Mark Knopfler :).

Dug out a good length of one bed and gathered frost-damaged/killed plants. Often, I am using a garden plant equivalent to straw, rather dried out material. I prefer not to do that and use those with a good deal of moisture still in them. Prepping for a 2nd planting of something, and dragging up...

Taking in the change in the seasons. Beautiful, sunny days. But, this morning, don't know why I was up before 3. Some need to be scrambling in anticipation of bad weather. I don't want bad weather — why would I want to actively prepare for it?

It's time for my 2nd Breakfast and Coffee

Good to know that it continues; I was wondering about that gardening club, @flowerbug . Freezing again this AM. I haven't any concerns about this but will need to have water off etc. before it's much colder. Of course, garden clean-up is anticipated with lots of organic material to be buried...

This morning I woke from a dream where I had returned to my old place of work in a commercial greenhouse. I didn't visit the greenhouses but was on land that I understood belonged to the owners. They were there, looking about the same age as when I worked for them. It was me who was the old...

;) No, really, To celebrate, I had a piece of Strawberry Rhubarb Pie for a 1st breakfast. These will be the final Zucchini Bread loaves for the season, baked yesterday. We took them to a friend but, don't worry. We have more in the fridge and freezer 🤤.

Ice-covered landscape. @heirloomgal and @Marie2020 having back problems has me thinking about being a  prime example and, perhaps a worthy one for this advice: Avoid. How one might avoid the damage to the sciatic nerve, I'm not really sure. I can suggest that strenuous physical effort must be...

You mean that Arizona, Nevada, and California can't just have the gates opened north in ... uh ... north ... down the coast ... bring it thru Yosa Mite ? Bringing from some place north like ... uh ... Alberta! Oh yeah. Bring it in with the petroleum! Didn't snow, didn't freeze. Wind is frigid...

The Weather Service came through with some accuracy — it's absolutely miserable outdoors. It was raining off and on throughout the day, Sunday. Temperatures stayed in the 40's F (single digitS C). With an absence of sun, it warmed to 50 (10⁰C) in the greenhouse, briefly. Light Rain has been...