We had a frost a few weeks ago. Killed off the green beans, tomatoes and zucchini. The green peppers got a bit of damage but are still trying to grow. The jalapeno and habanero peppers both made it through! My hubby made one mini green house from some of the bus windows that came out of our friend's bus that is parked on our property. He put that one over the jalapeno pepper. I told him I want him to make the 2nd one tomorrow (since he hasn't done it the last 2 days) because Thursday night is suppose to get down to 33 degrees.
I have about half (or close to) of my Mom's storage unit cleaned out. A friend is meeting me there tomorrow after she gets off work to look at the bed to see if she wants it. If not, then the lady we gave the couch to said she would like to have it. Today I donated all of her medical supplies (walker, wheelchair, shower chair, ted hose ....) and her prescription eyeglasses, 3 more big boxes of clothes, and gave several of her coats (to my niece). So we helped out 3 charities and my niece! Once the bed is gone I will be able to get to the stuff at the back of the storage unit.
I still need to figure out how to find out which of her jewelry has value (so my brothers and I can split it up equitably). I think that even some of the older costume jewelry has value but I'm not sure.
I think I am going to pull the zucchini and the tomatoes tomorrow.
I did cut the basil back almost to the ground and then dried out what I cut. I still have 5 or 6 bags full of Romas in the freezer waiting for me to get around to them. As well as 8 meat chickens that are happily living out their lives well past the 8 week mark. I think I got them in March or April (if I remember correctly
)but I haven't heard any complaints from them.
We are seriously knocking around the idea of finding a place with more land (10+ acres) and a smaller house and then selling our house (2.2 acres and a 5 bedroom house). My only 2 complaints about our current place is that the super steep and long driveway will probably cause 1 of us to fall and break a hip eventually and that the house is way more than we need for the 2 of us! I hate the idea of leaving behind all of the fruit trees and bushes that I have been planting over the past few years. Plus all of the work we have done putting up all the cattle panel fencing. Plus my hubby doesn't think the chicken coops will be a selling feature!
Or all of the fences.
On a separate note, I donated several baskets of canned jams, jellies, salsas and pickles to a friend's fundraising event to raise money for Spirit Strides ( a therapeutic horse riding place) and they brought in around $200!
Well, I'm headed to bed. Good night!
