It's hard to believe it's only the beginning of August. The feeling of autumn continues with chilly mornings and evenings. The flower garden is in maintenance mode now until the hard frosts of early October. The vegetable garden, as evidenced by Nora's recent posts, is entering its harvest period, which will continue into October as well. Some of the fall crops are in the ground -- peas and rutabaga. I did have thyme and cabbage planted as well, but apparently the rows were not marked clearly enough and Nora, in her zeal to weed, ran the collinear hoe through the beds. I may replant, but at the very least, intend to plant some lettuce and spinach seeds today.
It's going to be a mellow day today -- baking some zucchini bread, canning pickles, a smattering of seed planting, and then perhaps an afternoon of reading on the screened porch. I just started a book called
The Weekend Homesteader by Anna Hess; organized by month, it has homesteading projects designed for those of us with full-time jobs who can really only "homestead" on the weekends.
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