November 28 – More and more of our yard has now put on it’s winter garb, which I suppose is appropriate as it is almost December. Over the last couple of weeks, I have finished up a similar number of end-of-fall tasks. Some examples:Nov 28 – More and more of our yard has now put on it’s winter garb, which I suppose is appropriate as it is almost December. Over the last couple of weeks, I have finished up a similar number of end-of-fall tasks. Some examples:

[ Calico Limas ]
These vines start up the vertical strands of the fence, encircling them as they grow, and so I had to unwind them all, one by one. Quite a time-consuming task. Now there is nothing growing in our garden except grass and weeds.

[ Canned pears ]
3) Pulled up the last tomato plants and picked three scrawny tomatoes from it, as well as pulling up the cucumber vines and dragging them off to be disposed of.

[ Chopped-off peony stalks ]
5) A great many black walnuts ended up on the lawn under their tree. Before we could do the last mowings of the year, we had to rake them all up and dispose of them in some way. In our barn we have a lot of buckets of them we gathered some time ago, and I see that they are turning black and white (white with mold and black with old age). The room has a typical black walnut odor. I felt it would be best to take the moldy nuts out and leave them for the squirrels, and gather the fresher ones and save them for a while until the green husks can be removed!

[ Mandevilla ]
I accepted the offer, of course, so added more soil and removed surplus vines and leaves. It will share space in front of our big front window along with all my other smaller house plants that have been brought in to avoid freezing.

[ Unsliced / sliced ]
Yes, the just-before-winter chores are always there to fill up our days! – DALE