the little wild kingdom

[flowerbug]

nice day out today, for the first time in a long time it was cool enough to work well past noon plus i could take some time out from weeding to start checking on some bean plants and pick some pods that were starting to get dry enough that i was worried about having any more rains hitting them.

also there's a bleeping tiny bunny in there eating the bean plants and some of those plants are one-of-a-kind...

the bunny was brave or dumb enough to start chomping on a bean flower about 5ft from me yesterday, i didn't have the air rifle with me but i was weeding with my knife and threw it at it and bonked it with the handle (yes, i'm a pro (heh, not really)) and then i chased it into a corner behind some butterfly weed bushes but those things are not easy to get through so i couldn't get it.

hopefully i scared it enough for it to decide to finally try life outside the fence, but not sure that happened - there's way too many hiding spaces in all those gardens (most of them with tomatoes, beans or pepper plants now).

but that all said, i did get some time in at last to spend some time weeding the north garden edge and the onion patch which is near the top part of the north garden. i've been needing to do this for months. much more to do... i figure it might take a week or more to get it back into shape. it's a mess...

 

[flowerbug]

brrr! 55F out when putting the trash out this morning.

clear and sunny today with the high near 80F.

 

[Mini Horses]

55. That's chilly. We're not there yet, it's Nov weather here. Not looking forward to colder than that -- do not like cold. And snow is a dirty word!!

 

[flowerbug]

i did get the onions lifted yesterday and dried off a bit and then the dirt wiped off before putting into some boxes and brought into the garage. i'll need to rotate them at least once a day so they can properly cure without rotting - i don't have any place to hang them.

they look so much better than last year's onions so that make me happy.

and i woke up a few hours ago to rain hitting my roof (of this room) so we did get some rains last night.

i'm likely to not do much of anything today outside as it will be pretty wet and besides i'm tired from the previous days of extra hours of working out there and getting some weeding done in that big mess i've left until now.

progress is nice, but it doesn't really look like i've done much so far even if i've taken a dozen buckets of weeds to the weed pile. crab grass plants three feet across can take up a lot of room in a bucket...

 

[flowerbug]

...And snow is a dirty word!!

it is a four letter word... i don't like being cold either, but i'd rather be cool than hot, especially when i have work to do out there.

bean harvest season is starting and also the tomatoes will be coming in too so it's getting towards crazy time (if it wasn't crazy enough around here already! )...