Coffee

[digitS']

And, when she returned with a handful of something , my eyes began to lose focus and the scene slowly vanished into the mist shrouded forest and mountains beyond.

The kid turnout seemed about the usual number. Our candy supply had been based on history. Somehow, I expected fewer kids. We emptied out a little early!

 

[flowerbug]

@digitS' are your gardens all put up for the winter or still in progress?

i'm still a week or two from finishing... of course there's always something to do out there even if i'm mostly done.

 

[baymule]

Today is opening day of deer season. I heard one shot. There are only a couple of people on my road that hunt, plus there are several deer leases nearby. Close enough to hear the gunfire.
I slept late, lazing around slowly sipping coffee. I'm tired, got one load of clothes washed, another in the washer, I'll hang them out to dry. I need to get outside and get chores done. I've been in a rush all week to get SIL to doctor appointments and It will continue this month with PT 3 times a week. Nearly 10 AM and I don't care.

 

[digitS']

several deer leases nearby

I had to look up "deer lease." If the property owner combines that with, year-around installed blinds and baiting ... it almost comes down to a selling game.

@digitS' are your gardens all put up for the winter or still in progress?

The only plants that remain in the gardens are the ornamental perennials and about 6 feet of celeriac in one bed. There was about 8' at one time but they have been regularly harvested including for today's beef & barley soup.

At one time, and for about the the first 10 years that I grew celery root, I felt that they had better be harvested before frost. Well, they certainly can take light frosts and that has been the consistent morning experience, lately. They were then grown in distant gardens and had to be out of the ground for Fall cultivation but I also didn't want them to be damaged by freezing. They are probably hardier than their somewhat distant carrot relatives but I'm not as lax about that one just unhurried with the other. An empty cooler is already waiting for the celeriac on the deck but one thing is for sure, I'm in no hurry to be moving coolers in and out of the utility room on less-than-frigid days and frigid nights or leaving coolers in the way in that room. That ground will have some plant material and some soil from pots buried in it after harvest. That will be the end of Fall soil prep.

 

[flowerbug]

i needed a nap and was able to get some dreaming in, it was a silly dream about Mom singing some song wrong all the time and we were laughing about it as i was trying to get her to sing it with the right lyrics. funny to me though even more is that it was nothing at all to do with the music i'm playing now (and what was playing for the past few hours).

 

[flowerbug]

...Nearly 10 AM and I don't care.

sometimes you just gotta take a time-out for yourself.