Hello Friends! I missed posting yesterday because I was busy scrubbing the basement bathroom after our main sewer drain backed up Saturday. We couldn’t run water down the drains or use the bathroom all day until the plumber finally made it out at 8:30 that night. James had to wet vac the basement utility room …
Tag: seeds
Seed for Thought
Saturday’s mail brought the first of the season’s seed catalogs. And Saturday night it snowed. The snow was just a sugar coated dusting, but it was a reminder that winter is coming—eventually—because it is forecast to be as warm as 59F/15C by next Saturday. But today is gray and very windy and below freezing, a …
Finally Frost
As I sat at the kitchen table shelling dry beans Friday afternoon, idly gazing out the sliding glass doors to the deck. Spider Squirrel came for a visit. The daytime temperatures have settled into crisp autumn and the glass door was closed, but the screen door was open, pushed back almost all the way to …
Warm and Sunny
Even the chickens got to enjoy the warm sunshine What a roller coaster week in so many ways. But today is sunny and what we call warm here in Minneapolis, which means 33F/ 1C. Now many of you will scoff and say that is definitely not warm. But I tell you warm is a relative …
It Wasn’t a Fluke!
Oh baby it's cold outside! How cold is it? It's so cold that my freezer is warmer than the outdoors. Currently it's -7F/-22C and that's several degrees warmer than it was just a few hours ago. The polar vortex will be hanging around for only a few days, and I get to miss most of …
