We decided to turn on the heat Saturday. It was 62 upstairs at noon, and I decided I wasn't doing homework when I was freezing (and WS concurred), so on the heat went. The downstairs heat is still of since it is staying at 65 so far.
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Last night's spaghetti sauce was excellent - made out of fresh tomato sauce and fresh green peppers (both straight out of the garden - okay, the tomatoes were picked last weekend and matured on the table). We also had corn on the cob, from the garden. The ears were small, and only developed about 1/2 way up, but there was still enough that I was able to blanch and freeze two pints worth of corn.
That says a lot about how well the garden did this year; actually getting corn and green peppers. There are still small peppers out on the plants. I don't expect them to develop any further, but the way things have been going, I wouldn't count them out either.
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WS and the neighbor rented a wood splitter for Sunday. They got all the neighbor's wood split and about 1/2 of our wood split before having to return the machine. We have twice the wood to split that the neighbor did, so there is still a mighty large stack of wood to be stacked. Of course why WS elected to cut and split the wood up behind the dogpen is a mystery to me. I'm certainly not going to carry arm-fulls of wood 150 feet to get it to the lean-to. Hopefully he has some master plan that I am unaware of.
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Hopefully your weekend was more interesting, and/or exciting, than ours was!
Ah, dragging wood 150 feet should be a snap for a drag or trailer behind the 4-wheeler! Wonderful on your garden production. How much/what kind of corn did you plant? I love fresh corn, but haven't successfully grown it (not sure I've tried) since leaving home. Maybe next year.
Posted by: Cop Car | October 21, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Yeah, but it would have been much easier to bring it down in larger chunks instead of having to load it up after being split.
WS picked up the last envelope of corn at Agway this spring and I have no idea what kind it was. Some sort of sweet corn is all I know.
Posted by: Bogie | October 24, 2007 at 04:12 AM