The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

We the old folks he are what keeps me going all the time just to see what we or one of us have done this time. We fall get back up laughing so hard fall again..... One never knows how much I love all of you for it

We love you too!Now i am seriously going to try to sleep! Have a great night!

 

[perchie.girl]

 

[Alaskan]

We had a few hard frosts last month but, it's only been a couple days since the trees are actually dropping leaves. Have never seen it take them so long. Really going to be a mess if snow buries the leaves. The only good part was the very vivid color change of the maples etc. has lasted for quite some time. Another oddity for us.

our leaf color this year was VERY short. too much rain.

 

[Alaskan]

And i want to add, it is all Al's fault because he sent that excess cold down here!

totally is!! Usually we have at least a foot of snow by Halloween. This year we still have just a dusting. Even the ice isn't too bad.

Staying in the 20s to 30s...so we haven't yet turned on the heat...getting close to time though.

 

[getaclue]

HI deb! Good to see you. How have you been doing?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

We just had our first frost... which was due Oct. 20th.... but any way.

totally is!! Usually we have at least a foot of snow by Halloween. This year we still have just a dusting. Even the ice isn't too bad.

Staying in the 20s to 30s...so we haven't yet turned on the heat...getting close to time though.

It was -20 here last night. (-4F)

 

[perchie.girl]

HI deb! Good to see you. How have you been doing?

still waiting hate it.... how are you doing...

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Morning, Deb.

Finished hauling water out to the animals (we haven't put out the heated waterers yet) and emptying the bladder on my furnace.

In a few hours I'll be heading over to my sewing teachers house - we've been working on a postage stamp (1 inch size squares) for 3 years now, and we are done with it and need it done. So we've been doing a couple intensive sessions to push through. It takes us about an hour to do 1% on the quilt top, we're at 89% currently.

Need to take a few things to the dump before they're stuck in our lawn, semi permanently, for winter. And I want to finish some embroidery. Finished the original last night, and it was a hit, so I'm making one more of the same. BF still wants a Die Hard quote made into a pillow, so I'll likely be starting that, too.

Anyone else have any weekend plans?

 

[NotAFarm]

A stray cat showed up around our place the last weekend in October. I was gone to DD's house and DH ran it off. When I got home, I called our neighbor that lives just north to see if it was theirs. It is solid black and friendly and I know they have one that fits that description that is an outside cat. She said no, their cat wears a flea collar and she had seen it that morning (Monday). The stray didn't have anything on it. It didn't come back so I figured it must have gone home.
On Halloween, I go over to pick-up something from a neighbor that lives to the east of us and she had a black cat in a crate. I had mentioned the black cat to her and she said she had seen it around her place and another neighbor said it had been to their house (all four of us have outside cats that are rescues). It was easy to catch, she said, and was going to take it somewhere else if it didn't belong to any of the neighbors (which we had determined it did not).
I think it was dumped in our area and I didn't want her taking it and dumping it on someone else. I called a friend that makes it her mission to take feral/strays to PAWS in Chicago to get them neutered and tries to finds home for them. She is making a trip on Thursday so I've had this cat in a coop in the barn since Halloween. Nice, friendly cat that uses the litter box. The plan is that a farm family will take it after it comes back from PAWS.
I need to prep a crate for the cat to be in on Wednesday when it is picked up. I will be digging through stuff in the barn to find the crate that is small enough to fit in the car but sufficient for the cat to be in for 24 hours. It needs to accommodate a litter box. It might take me all day...
...but if I have time after that, I will be bagging leaves for the coop.

 

[chickadoodles]

I've grown Burgess Climbing Trip-L-Crop tomatoes before, didn't grow or climb as crazy as they are supposed to here with our short season but they were impressive sized tomatoes and super meaty. Make a great sauce tomato. Only had them perform good once though, few other times not so good so I don't bother with long season tomatoes anymore.
Probably would have done good this yr we had warm right through most of October and I actually got a decent crop of beefsteaks. Normally they are just starting to turn red come hard frost.

I don't know why I keep buying from Burgess. Honestly I bought 5 fruit cocktail trees from them and none of them were more than one fruit variety! Makes me mad. They do offer a one year guarantee but it takes 3-4 years to see what it will produce!
I bought some grape vines from them and I am very disappointed in those also 1 out of 4 is alive! I won't spend any more of my money with them. Just tired of getting burned after 6 years of trying.