After being gone from the ranch housesitting my own house for a couple weeks, I am finally home. Well, I have been home since Monday night, but between school, ranch chores, and life tasks, I have been busy.
In fact, it took me til yesterday to get out and tend to some garden chores, namely removing this year's spent raspberry canes and thinning my carrots.
The carrots, they really grew!
I had thinned them before I left, but as anyone who grows carrots knows, they somehow need a perpetual bit of thinning it seems. Okay, and I also love to snack on the little thinnings too, sheesh.
The tops are so lush I am thinking about making some carrot top pesto. Because pesto. It's never a bad time for pesto.
The Sanfoin experiment is coming along nicely. Before planting tons of it up here we wanted to do a little test patch to see how it would grow. The legume loves this climate and soil, it's pink blooms are so delicate and delightful.
The random nigella that was in one of the boxes is fully bloomed and dried out. I am going to cut them all and take them to a dear friend who makes the most glorious dried floral wreaths. She can always use materials.
But like the fall garden, I am a bit fading. Still here, but boy this year has kicked the stuffing out of me. I am still coughing from this cough due to cold thing I got three weeks ago. To be fair though, I haven't slowed down enough to get over the dang thing. I have been doing mountains of school work in the morning, chores in the early afternoon, and splitting and stacking firewood in the evenings.
Because you know, winter is coming. And I have to spend half of October on the road.
But you know what? I am more than thankful. Everything is moving along as it should, and for the most part, I am more than content. I am also hoping next year will be a bit less intense, as this year packed about a decade of loss and change into it so far. We shall see.
At least I will have some tasty carrots to munch on as I traverse the trials and tribulation😉
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I don't know how you did all that
Oh, you and me both my dear friend. My tail is truly dragging lol!
But I have my Hive pals who bring me smiles, so there's that😊
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Today I printed out a copy of my fall chores list. It seems to get longer every year. If I do two a day, I might get done before it snows!
How does that happen, right? I am flying through the fall chores because we have to leave soon to go to the boy's graduation. And it's supposed to freeze here in a couple days so time is of the essence lol! Hopefully your list shrinks fast!
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It has been an amazingly-warm September, but I suppose I will harvest all of my winter squash tomorrow, whether or not it appears to be fully mature. It has run out of time, methinks.
Wow! Those carrots! I sure hope once you get past October, things will slow down for you.
They really exploded while I was gone!
Thanks so much! I am hoping so too, but with the state of the world I am not so sure it's going to happen...
Hope you had a marvelous weekend!
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