The storm was on its way in yesterday morning as I made my trip to town for grain and to drop off the co-op order. It started just as I got home and lasted through till 1:00 pm. This gave me time inside to write while waiting for it to stop. Once it did I made a round about the farm to check on everything and see how it has done. The leaves are just starting to turn on the trees around the tunnel. The maples take till October most years before they kick into brightness.
I popped the card out of my game camera and checked the recordings. I got 1 that triggered from a bird, 1 from the wind, and then this one with the 2 deer. Looks to be the doe and her young. I saw them on the hill behind the studio a few days ago and shooed them off.
The storm dropped about a 1/4 inch of rain through mid day and this morning it was .28 inches. That gives us over 2/3 an inch of rain in 7 days.
The elderberries have not produced like other years. They are much more sparse and a few bushes did not even produce this year. I picked the couple pounds of them from the garden bush and took them in the house. I really should probably go driving to my various known accessible bushes around the area to do some more picking. We did can 9 quarts of elderberry juice earlier this month so I may not REALLY need to get more this season. I think 9 quarts should be enough to last the 4 of us the winter.
The Kohlrabi I planted has grown nicely. I only have about 10 of them but they look really nice and have grown well after being seeded in July. The bugs are attacking the leaves but that is to be expected since they are next the kale which has been getting hit hard.
I popped up the weather and saw it calling for frost Sunday morning so I headed out to pick every one of the cucumbers left on the vines. I sold 406 of them and we kept over 100 which I find to be pretty darn good, over 500 for the season. This batch gave me 10 pounds of larger and 7 pounds of smaller off sized. They all went to the cooler until we can process or use them.
We have some scattered Parissiene carrots and I popped one out. Quit surprisingly it was nice and sweet and crisp despite not getting much water all summer. The boys will have to go dig through their gardens for the hiding carrots that should be a lot larger since they got regular water.
As it got dark a line of storms blew in and the back side had a nice little thunderstorm with it. We had some nice lightning and thunder and as I was walking to put the birds in I got a video of one. This is the still from it. The thunder rolled around for over 30 seconds afterwards.
As I said in the beginning I got a lot of time to write while it rained. I managed to get over 4,000 words down and am nearing the end of chapter 3 by the time I went to bed last night. I am committed to doing #nanowrimo still as it just requires writing 50k words in November. I was planning to use this story for it but I can't stop myself from writing it now. I will say that it feels like the beginning of a series though as the world is evolving pretty well and is showing some pretty deep potential.
I haven't been able to write like this in MANY years so it is a serious breath of fresh air to have the creative flow largely unimpeded. It has helped that I have been writing 500 to 1000 words daily here on Hive for months now which has really done a lot to keep it open.
I'm listening to the Stephen King "On Writing" book and it is so far the most helpful that I have heard. Given he is one of the most prolific and successful authors of our times I would hope that he would have some good and useful methods.
Today I am going to be picking everything that can freeze then this afternoon will cover the tomato rows with row covers and hope that I can keep them from freezing. The malabar spinach may not survive but the New Zealand spinach likely will. WE will see in the morning once I pull the covers.
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Very cool about the writing. I hope it continues as well.