Well I was caught a bit off guard with the snowfall in the middle of the week. Talk about throwing a spanner in the works. The snow has mostly gone today, it has only taken three days. Oh well. I haven’t been idle, rest assured. I have been catching up on this year’s garden notes. I know, I am supposed to do them weekly, but that just didn’t happen, so now I am relying on my ahhm, memory to get things written down. Tonight it is raining, that is to end in snow again, but hopefully that forecast will be wrong. Fingers crossed. The end of the week is supposed to be stunning. Hopefully,
As of today, all the beds have been cleaned up with the netting and irrigation put away for the winter. Hopefully safe from little gnawing, winter bored rodents. All I have left are the dahlia beds, and I am waiting for that beautiful weather at the end of the week to get that done. But progress is being made. Speaking of progress, Steve pulled up a drone image he took back in April, before all the stumps and rocks have been removed. Whoah. Compare that to what the recent image shows and what a huge difference. I could say that I had been busy.
I have piles of cut down flower stems that are in various piles before I get them onto the compost pile, but I decided to let the goats have fun, and they certainly did enjoy the flowering cabbage plants.
Between rounds in clean up, I managed to create two still life arrangements for the doors. I was having a blast. Even though the flower beds are all done for the season I am still gleaning enough material around the property to be able to be creative.
Like I said, I was having fun. And really, isn’t that what it should be about? Having fun, creating beauty on the first day of November.
Until next week. Allie