The first snow
It was a blessing to receive the moisture, all total we had 4/10th" in the rain gauge, WaHoooo!!!
We'd certainly take more, the ground is so dry it sounded like someone sucking with a straw at the bottom of an empty cup.
Harvested all we had left in the garden in prep for this cold snap, so we have a mess in our mudroom and kitchen. There are two bushel baskets of green tomatoes, a bushel basket of sweetdumplin squash, cantaloupe and honeydew melon. Then a 1/2 bushel basket of ripe and ripening tomatoes, my seed cucumbers, zucchini, a 15# head of cabbage( the other 7 heads are hanging by their root in the cellar), and peppers everywhere! See what I mean about a mess, a mess of wonderful homegrown produce :o)
We also picked 1 bushel basket, full to overflowing of concord grapes! I'll be making juice with them and most certainly making a couple of batches of jelly too, Ummm, Ummm! I can the juice, unsweetened then can use for more jelly or just add a little sugar and enjoy as a juice.
We left the root crops, all except the mangle beets and red beets because they were exposed above ground. Praying the onions will be okay, I did mulch them and have some herbs covered with towels. The greenhouse is all tucked in with floating row covers and tarps on the taller items( tomatoes, eggplant, etc.... Our evening temp. tonight is fore casted to be 24F
So we have a pot of potatoes and sausage soup on the wood cook stove for supper, smells wonderful!
Enjoy your weekend, we'll be putting on the metal roof of the shop( barring rainy weather) :o)
Blessings for your weekend everyone
4 comments:
Wow, snow! It was 85 here yesterday. The nights are cool and I am beginning to wonder with the warm weather hanging around if we are going to just jump from summer into winter with only a hint of fall. Tomatoes are still producing like gangbusters and frankly, I am getting a little tired of them. Blessings, Kat
Kat,
We never have much of a Fall, in fact usually go into winter with frozen green leaves still on the trees*sigh*
I'm tired of it all, but just keep telling myself that it will be a blessing to have and to take full advantage of the plentiful crops this season because next season may not be as good!
Sure glad we comment on each other's blogs, otherwise I wouldn't have any comments*wink*
Funny how if you aren't posting everyday, with some exciting news, how people just loose interest and move on. Oh well I did this blog more for my extended family to keep up with what's going on in our lives anyway so..... Thanks for commenting Kat :o)
Blessings,
Kelle
Holy Smokes! Snow so early and you don't live in Alaska!! Jeez! I'm not ready for that yet!! We've had 2 hard frosts so far and that's it, thank goodness. Going to dip into the 50's this weekend. It's been in the low 80's hight 70's...eeek....debbie
We've threats of snow flurries in the Appalachian Mtns. of southwest Virginia. No snow yet but, gosh, it was COLD earlier this week! I had to turn the heat on and that hurt my wallet!
So glad the shawl is being loved; it was a joy to send it to C.
xoxo
love and prayers,Sandra
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