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Wearing Many Hats

Although I don't have time to write a proper entry, I just couldn't resist posting some recent pictures of Myrick. She has so much personality that I've been compelled to try to capture some of it in photos. Here are some taken on a day when we were at home sick (but enjoying our time together, nonetheless!). What can I say except that my girl loves hats?!

Shutting down the garden

Despite the balmy, non-autumnal weather of late (70 degrees?), the last of our tomato plants has thrown in the towel. It was a memorable gardening experience this year. Way too many tomato plants to keep up with, but not enough peas. It'll be nice to try it differently next year.

Since we're planning to create a new garden closer to the house, this is the end of the line for this plot. We're going to mow it, till all the weeds under, and re-seed it with grass. There are a few volunteer maple trees that have appeared and several balsam firs that I planted in the spring (in the middle of the garden, of course!) that are doing quite well. So before too long, it will hopefully lose all semblance of a garden.

As I was hacking back the waist-high weeds from the older part of the garden and planting stakes to mark the nascent balsam-fir christmas trees, I apparently disturbed a nest of rather grumpy yellow jackets. So the operation is on hold for the moment, but after 5 or 6 stings I was looking forward to the first hard frost that much more....