Getting Ready for Winter

After 3 days of Weslee's birthday celebration (family fun time), Saturday and today were spent doing chores, and getting ready for the Winter.

A definite chill is in the air, and it's not just outside. We have leaks at the bottom of our front door, our screen door, and a couple of windows in our bedrooms. Plus we think the door leading to the garage from the house has enough clearance for a little field mouse to get through. So Doug has been working on those projects.

Saturday I tore down the sunflowers in the front yard (pictures to come soon). I placed the heads where they could finish drying out so we could eat the seeds this Winter. Doug and Weslee finished breaking off the sunflower stalks at the ground, and then Weslee attacked the corn and sunflower stalks still in the backyard corn patch.

Today they finished tearing down the tomato plants and "plowing" them under, they spread peat moss on the strawberry and raspberry plants. The plastic and blankets that protected them are in the basement, and the tomato cages are still waiting to go into the shed.

I've sliced up another dehydrator-full of varous tomatoes (ripe and unripe) and they are drying right now. Our indoor tomato plants are thriving under the grow lights and Weslee's regular watering, although he did kinda flood them yesterday.

Gotta get back to fixing dinner - taco meat and refried beans in quesadillas, and freshly harvested carrots! YUM!!!

Vikki
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