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A few short takes because I finally remembered the stuff I was thinking of (see earlier post).

I brought in my hummingbird feeders the middle of last week. Neither of them had been touched for a couple of days so I figured even the migrants had found their way further south.

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I actually got a few tomatoes! I picked 6 last Sunday. Most are cracked around the top from too much water, and they were still half green when I picked them. However, upon sitting on the counter all week, they have ripened (and not cracked any more) nicely. I got to have tomatoes in my lunch salad yesterday (and have enough for the next several days of salads).

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Also picked from the garden were a bunch of green beans (which actually are mostly purple because I plant the purple ones) and I pulled a couple of carrots. There are still plenty of carrots out there, but I will only pull them as I need them for my lunch salads.

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The first difinitive sign that winter is really on its way; Tory is gaining weight quickly. He drops a lot of weight in the summer - becoming almost skin and bone. Now he is up to about 10 pounds. This is the sign for me to start fattening the dogs up for the winter too.

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The cats are definitely earning their keep. The back yard is littered with mouse bodies every day. Sunday, while I was in the vegetable garden, I discovered that someone had also killed a rat. I wonder if it migrated up from the farm just down the road? Anyway, can I hear a WhooHoo for the cats?

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Speaking of mice, one died behind the wall in my bathroom. Dead rodents have a distinctive smell, and I'm not really happy about it - but not unhappy enough to start tearing out sheetrock. Experience has taught me that the smell will go away in a couple more weeks (fortunately, it doesn't stink as bad as when something died behind our bedroom wall - must have been a squirrel or chipmunk because that reeked strongly!)

Stupid Wakefulness

Every night, I have to get up and let the dogs out - sometimes, like Tuesday night, I have to let them out twice. This is one of Missy's quirks and I have learned to live with it.

Most nights, I wake up somewhere between midnight and 2 AM (you'd think at that point she could wait until 3), let them out, go back to bed and doze off until Prince barks, wake back up and let them in, go up and let Tory in thru the slider (if he didn't come in earlier), go back to bed, pet Tory for a couple of minutes and fall back asleep.

Last night was no different, except the falling back asleep bit. I lay awake for almost an hour. During that time, I thought of all kinds of witty (or not so witty, but at least interesting) things to post about.

Do you think I could remember a darn one of them?

Garden Blogs

Since I am basically pulling the disappearing act for a while, here are some gardening blogs that, although they aren't on my sidebar, I like peruse.

Janet's Garden

Takoma Gardener

Garden Design Online - technically not a blog, but informative anyway.

And for those going thru withdrawals, there is A Growing Delight, a Blog from the Southern Hemisphere.

Prepare to Be Bored

The next two weeks will be light for posts (or reading others' blogs) as I have a boatload of pet-sitting during that time.

Small Project Results

On July 7, I wrote a post about a self-induced gardening project that was supposed to be fairly short. Supposedly, we were going to dig up an area, plant a couple of shrubs and plants that I already had, cover 80% of the area with mulch, and get back to it in a year or two.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!chuckle, chuckle, (wipe the tears on my sleaves), snort, snort, chuckle BWAHAHAHA chuckle, snort, snort . . . .hm, snort.

(okay, I got that out of my system).

Anywho, I should have know that we would never get out of it as just a light project - oh, no, it became a full-blown, massive project that took 2 months (literally - okay, about 2 days shy of 2 months).

So, in the beginning there was a slope with just a couple of shrubs that had been newly planted.:

And Bogie said unto herself, "gee, if I don't dig up all the weeds, mos and forest mat, it will just take over and give my newly planted greenery a tough time of holding its own." Then she thought to herself, "I'll dig up those nasty weeds, moss and forest mat, mulch it and it will be ready to plant next year (or later), when I have time." And Lo, the digging began (with a few obstacles):

And the Wonderful Spouse was right there by her side, or at least the 4-wheeler was (it was used to haul off all the weed-laden clay and forest mat. Actually, the Wonderful Spouse was by my side, except when he snuck off to take some pictures.

Last Flower Pics For 2006

Probably the last pictures of my flower garden by the driveway for this year. The previous pics are here.

Here is what it looks like in later summer (August)

I did cheat a bit because from this view you get to see flowers from the gardens on both sides of the stone stairs, where previous pictures have just been of the right-side garden. However, all the phlox is on the left side, and I wanted to get it into the picture.

Part of the color in the right side of the garden is from Husker Red Penstemon Digitalis, which bloomed much earlier in the year. But, as the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, the leaves and seed pods start turning red (in fact, the picture below shows a pale version of what they are now - a deep, vibrant maroon).

Hope you enjoyed the flowers from this year's gardens!

Murderous Rage

This is just too funny - and rings of a bit of truth that an infidel has stumbled on (with the help of commenting infidels). Warning - if you fly into a rage (murderous or otherwise) over politically incorrect stuff, don't bother clicking on the link.

I have seen the link a couple of places, but the last place was at mAss Backwards.

New KC Site

I have been remiss in pointing out this new Keratoconus forum. It is very new, so not many people have posted yet, but it looks like the curator took some care to make it readable and to cover most of the concerns of KCers.

Once again, that is Keratoconus International.

Fall Color

For Buffy, who thought NH might have mostly evergreens, so wouldn't get much fall color:

And these are from "Up North" in the Mt. Washington area. Pictures supplied by Mt. Washington Observatory.

New Address

Jay and Deb, formerly of Accidental Verbosity, are now at Dispatches from Bloglivion.

Yes I know, I was rather slow on the uptake