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Finished the Tomatoes

Started at 5:30 today and finally got to sit down and put my feet up at 3 p.m.  While Norman was out for his walk I cut up the onions, garlic and celery and measure the herbs.  Right after breakfast … Continue reading

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What a Surprise!!

Slept well last night and we were both awake just before 5 so as usual we laid in bed and talked about what we needed to do today.  We agreed we needed to look at the grapes as it seemed … Continue reading

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Odds and Ends

Just cleaning up odd jobs today.  Norman is busy pulling the corn stocks that are left.  The raccoons came in and finished off anything that looked like corn so now just clean up that part of the garden.  I went … Continue reading

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So the Mint-X Failed This Time

Norman put out new Mint-X bags yesterday and they have protected the beans but those darn raccoons just walked around them.  I was afraid they would not stop the raccoons once they knew the corn was ready.  When we were … Continue reading

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Summer is here for sure.  The temperature isn’t too bad, 85 degrees but it is too humid to work past noon.  Yesterday, I picked 2 1/2  quarts of raspberries and made raspberry sauce.  Today I picked almost 4 quarts of … Continue reading

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The pace is slowing down a bit so at least today we can pick what we want to do.  I picked the tomatoes and got only a half box, about 12 pounds so decided to wait until tomorrow’s picking to … Continue reading

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