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Much to my surprise and joy, one of the grape vines we planted last year has survived and has leafed out! Whoo!! I had resigned myself to having lost them all after the late freeze. Finding that one vine helped motivate me while working on getting the vineyard cleared and prepped for new vines. 🙂…
Got up early to go blackberry picking today but noticed the red sky just as dawn was breaking and decided to check the radar. Yup, rain coming in. Okay, so now what do I do? It’s sometimes very tough to change gears after having a plan for the day. The animals are all fine. The…
I hate the time change each time it rolls around. Why can’t we leave well enough alone? Why are we trying to “fix” it by changing it twice a year? ugh. Autumn is in full swing around here. The trees by the house are in camouflage and it’s a cool 61 degrees this afternoon. Our…
I go through about a half gallon of tea each day by myself. This is better than the Pepsi I used to drink 2 liters of each day. Maybe by the time I’m grown up, I’ll get around to drinking more water than anything else. Maybe. I thought I had the best recipe for cold…
It is technically Autumn around here and there is some visual evidence that the seasons are changing but the leaf colors haven’t changed much yet. We’ve had a couple of cool mornings but it’s not consistently cool yet. Harvested some more of our nice lemon drop hot peppers today. I think we’ll have hot lemon…
Part of this morning was spent working on the vineyard. We have eight grape vines planted, mulched and watered. Plus, there is one that might not survive so it has been granted a private space. This is one of our farm projects. I stopped to see how things were coming with the vineyard and realized…