Good morning gardeners. Wow @karenerwin, you really had a bad day, sorry about that. I can relate to you wanting to finally put the canner away @Sueby. I'm still trying to decide whether to do a little applesauce or not so my canner is hanging out in the DR. The frost wiped out my dahlias and zinnias in the front yard. I plan to dig up the tubers when I'm planting my daffodil bulbs. Yesterday I had to go into Boston to meet my new cardiologist. My heart is doing well, clean arteries and good EKG. He did increase my BP meds. I picked my last 3 butternut squashes this morning. Two were over 1 pound each and the third just under 2 pounds. The leeks are staying in the ground until I need some for cooking. It's supposed to start raining later this morning and go non stop until Friday night or Saturday morning. It's going to be seriously messy. I have enough acorns on the ground to feed 200 hungry squirrels and their relatives. I've raked them away from walkways twice and they are still falling out of the trees. I've only seen one lonely squirrel in the yard lately. I think the hawks and eagles may have frightened them all away. Hopefully things will dry out enough early next week so I can clean up more acorns and the garden. I'm down to just a few more ripe tomatoes. I've been splitting them with the chickens. They really like the little cherry tomatoes. It's like they each get their own little trophy to run around with. Have a great day everyone and best of luck with your winter preps.