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[superchemicalgirl]

Not sure. I've complained about the lack of rain for a while now and all I seem to get is dry conditions or very light drizzle.

 

[Beer can]

Not sure. I've complained about the lack of rain for a while now and all I seem to get is dry conditions or very light drizzle. 

Is this typical of Maine? Every time we get rain the front looks like it's headed up your way, must be it peters out before it gets to you. We only got light drizzle yesterday, but we're good, most of western NY has been in severe drought this yr.
Maybe you will get your precipitation this winter

 

[microchick]

Good morning everyone. Haven't been around much this week. We have been busy harvesting fruit from our orchard and dodging Yellow Jacket wasps as we worked. We finally had to quit due to the number of wasps. DH and I are both Epi-pen seriously allergic to wasps and I managed to get stung once. Luckily I was able to get antihistamines in me in time to avoid the dreaded 300$ pen and subsequent trip to the hospital but it sure does put a damper on your day.

We picked a total of three bushels of apples off our young dwarf apple trees and Asian pears this year and sacrificed a bushel or two to the wasps and deer. If the deer are brave enough to tackle the wasps, hey, bon appetit to them. The chickens have eaten so many apples that they are sick of them and DH and I are still peeling and slicing for the freezer and dehydrator. We still have a bushel to go.

Amazing the number of yellow jackets this year given that we have sprayed for insects religiously. Maybe the wet summer we have had has impacted the insect population. I just hate giving them part of our harvest. Today is Fall coop cleaning day.......oh.....yippee.

See that Perchie.girl is on vacation. What's everyone else been up to?

 

[chickisoup]

Good Sunday morning friends!
Well,it has begun. The last of my herb garden most surely didn't make it thru the night and this morning I had to carry my hammer with me as I walked about opening the coop and inspecting the run, the ice cap now too thick in some of the water dishes to just be displaced with the heel of my rubber boots. As this was the first truly " crispy" morning, I waited to open the girls toasty coop until after some of the "crunch" was gone from the grass. The young ones came charging out with their usual youthful fervor, the older, wiser, hens were a bit less eager to get their toes cold but soon all were out doing their best to soak up the morning sun, even my poor molty hen that still looks so rough she has been re-named Roadkill.

Can't help but look forward to the reaction of the youngsters when they come charging out one morning soon and encounter their first snow.

 

[chickisoup]

For all my Canadian friends

tomorrow

(Always thought your date made so much more sense
than ours. Yours is actually at the harvest time!)

 

[perchie.girl]

Good morning everyone. Haven't been around much this week. We have been busy harvesting fruit from our orchard and dodging Yellow Jacket wasps as we worked. We finally had to quit due to the number of wasps. DH and I are both Epi-pen seriously allergic to wasps and I managed to get stung once. Luckily I was able to get antihistamines in me in time to avoid the dreaded 300$ pen and subsequent trip to the hospital but it sure does put a damper on your day.

We picked a total of three bushels of apples off our young dwarf apple trees and Asian pears this year and sacrificed a bushel or two to the wasps and deer. If the deer are brave enough to tackle the wasps, hey, bon appetit to them. The chickens have eaten so many apples that they are sick of them and DH and I are still peeling and slicing for the freezer and dehydrator. We still have a bushel to go.

Amazing the number of yellow jackets this year given that we have sprayed for insects religiously. Maybe the wet summer we have had has impacted the insect population. I just hate giving them part of our harvest. Today is Fall coop cleaning day.......oh.....yippee.

See that Perchie.girl is on vacation. What's everyone else been up to?

 

[pennyJo1960]

sitting with the BF and my first cup of the day late morning
grocewry shopping is on tap here

 

[Beer can]

Buzzing up our log pile, haven't had to start our outdoor boiler yet, know it's coming soon... Might try to hold out on heat like Alaskan :-D no babies here anymore so maybe dw will allow no heat longer this fall but doubtful. ..
Going to be shredding kraut cabbage tonight, can't put it off any longer, had one split :-(

 

[Wickedchicken6]

For all my Canadian friends

tomorrow

(Always thought your date made so much more sense
than ours. Yours is actually at the harvest time!)

Thank you chickisoup!!
It is curious that we have different dates.
I've never looked up why though.

I always wished our American friends a Happy Thanksgiving when I used to announce our sheep show in Nov.
For us, it is very late in the year.
Would there be any harvesting in the southern states on your date?

I'm freezing my butt off up here already.

It was just 75F like, 5-6 days ago.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone as well!!!
(Maybe with all the stuff going on, maybe everyone could use a blessing)

 

[microchick]

There is harvesting going on in the Midwest over both Thanksgiving and Christmas some times. Several years ago I asked a lady we know whose family farmed how the harvest was going and she said slow. She didn't mind eating Thanksgiving Turkey in the harvester--had done it many times but he would be darned if she would unwrap Christmas gifts in one.

Yes, we could all use some special blessings this year. In all my 63 years on this earth I have never seen things as bad as they are now. Not even during the Viet Nam war era although it comes close. The other day after listening to the news, I turned and suggested maybe it was time to move to Canada. DH, who was raised in Wisconsin and no stranger to winter immediately said no 'Too Cold!'

Oh well, I tried.