I am still tired...I decided to drop my anti-depressants, and the withdrawals has me a wee bit cranky. I don' need no stinkin' antidepressants!
We have had enough rain to start a "Noah's Ark" rumor around hear...each day it's dreary with scattered showers and in the afternoon and evening we get thunderstorms. I was able to go out this morning and weed for a bit, thinking I'd pick beans and chamomille this afternoon...BUT we got hit again with thunderstorms. I think by the time I can actually pick my beans I'll have some that are trying to become baseball bats.
Our phone got fried in last nights thunderstorm, so no when people call, we can't hear hardly over the static and then the call is disconnected. Go figure. At some point, we are supposed to get a service man out, but without the phone we had to request it over the internet and it's vague as to when he will be out to fix the problem.
My friends and family are having financial horrors and I feel like giving the universe a "bah- humbug".
I finally did my first full picking of beans...I got about 11-12 pints. I got 9 canned, have one in the fridge and we ate the other with our own new potatoes! Yum!
We have had unbelievable storms rolling through each day, so it's been hard to tend to the garden. I will try and get out there and get somethings done today.
We have daughter Jen coming for her first visit to this home later this week, and she is bringing her boyfriend with her for us to meet....kind of a "meet the parents" visit. lol She tries to never let us meet her boyfriends, so we know this one is serious. He seems like a really nice guy from what we have heard. Hope he likes us!
Nature is abundant this year...does that mean a hard winter ahead? We were walking in the woods to check out a couple of trees that Rob had cut and we startled a whole family of either quail or partridge...I had no idea they were there in the back, just inside the wood line! Rob has found some red spotted newts and will take one home with him...apparently they have a 20 year life span!
The garden is doing it's thing...I have baby summer squash,baby cukes and baby beans...looks like a bumper crop. I have a dilema with my raspberries...the grass has grown back around them, so I have to figure out how to fix that. I planted a few more beans in a space vacated by broccoli, and replanted radishes and spinach.
I'm having a great herb harvest, and finally all the "Wave" petunias I planted are starting to run, so they and the marigolds have filled in my "mound" in the center of the cottage garden...the new shed/garage is up and has a space on the side for yet another garden bed....nothing is ready for division, so I guess I'll be getting a few more plants (oh darn!)
More wood is in the woodshed, still not enough for the winter, but we are where we were when we moved in, so that's enough until January or February. I'm already starting a list of what to plant next year and where...I'mso please with how things have grown here!
The basement remains an issue, but since Ed has decided to make the basement his workshop and the sun room my craft space, I no longer have to worry about getting it perfectly organized...just finding stuff isstill an issue. I have no idea how long it will take to get things moved around or whipped into shape. He needs to run electricity to the sun room and since it involved crawling into a small space under it, he puts it off as long as he can. Ed's schedule is crazy at work and will continue to be crazy until the ship is launched, so no telling what will happen. Once the ground freezes, work on the sunroom will probably come to a halt.
I've noticed several people commenting on how fast the summer is going by...I thought the spring would never move forward, but now, it seems like the days fly by ! I haven't been this busy in the summer for a long time,but jeez! This is rediculous!
We took a hike to a local spot called "Tannery Falls" yesterday. I am amazed that it's not a more publicized spot. The falls were amazing to see!
Ed comes home late this afternoon, so today will be busy busy busy...a power clean, lots of work around the place and another trip to the POD to try and clean it out some more.
We went yesterday to do some cleaning out and found that someone had hit it and jammed the door. We finally got it open and brought home a ton of stuff....I'm beggining to think that there it a secret door in the back and more stuff keeps getting put into it, as it seems like a bottomless pit ! Maybe it's like wire coat hangers and when you close the door, they breed in there and make more junk.
I hope Ed is happy with all the work that was done around here, Rob has worked continuously...he's like a little beaver...cutting wood and chopping dead trees, cutting and stacking.
I have been enjoying the visit enough so that I didn't get nearly enough done, but that's life!
I've been drying herbs like a mad woman! Got lots and lots of chamomille and catnip. I'll be blending it to make teas mostly. I also got my first potato !!! I couldn't wait any longer to see if they had started to grow. lol
The Strawberries are making babies, so I'll expand the bedto the one next to it. It appears that my husband has discovered a fondness for eating berries that we grow ourselves. (big surprise). I got the first tomato, a cherry one, and the beans have little tiny baby beans on them. I'm content, but have to start some more plants for the end of the season...maybe a few more beans, lettuce, radishes and spinach...
Sam and her hubby have come for a visit and to do some work...Rob is such a nice guy, and so helpful. Sam is grumpy and hormonal, and tired of being pregnant. She's due on the 8th of December, but I'm thinking she will not last that long. Another boy..Aidan.
