Bad language

Yep, what you see on the ground there is a four letter BAD word. I can't believe it's here so soon this year. October 29th!!!!!

This is like seeing Christmas decorations in the stores before Halloween. I wish everything would hold off until at least after Thanksgiving.

The weather forecasters have said that this will be a mild winter. I certainly hope so after the last two. Let's all keep our fingers and toes crossed that we just have a little of the white stuff this year! Cross your fingers and toes for Rosemary's neck of the woods too. She gets it a lot worse in N. Idaho than I do here in Spokane. (100 miles apart).

Sick of looking at the squash on my blog.

I am so tired of looking at those squash on my last blog I had to update.


Here are two views of the new porch add on. Looks messy right now but once it's cleaned up I will get better pics.
The construction crew were friends that drove over from Seattle just to do this job. Oh, and also play disc golf (very important). Took three days with lots of disc golf included to finish the porch. They will be back in the spring to erect a carport for our cars. Poor guys worked in below freezing weather with lots of wind. Oh, and all my plants are dead from that freeze. I am glad in a way because I don't want to see another squash till next year. LOL

Our weather now is in the 40's at night and up to the low 60's during the day. Rainy. Got that roof on just in time.

Pictures

Looks funny not to have at least one picture on each of my blogs. I took this over the weekend to show just how many veggies we get. This is just a few of each by the way.

Seems the zuchinni has slowed down just about when the crookneck decided to take off. The basket is full of tomatoes and cucumbers, and we have started to get a few edible ears of corn which are just DELICIOUS! White corn at that! In the middle you will see a Basil plant. I have to admit I bought that at the store because I was making zuchinni soup and it called for fresh basil. Hey I am sounding like I can actually cook. Ha ha! I dabble here and there on fun things but don't expect me to cook day after day. NOT me. I would rather clean dishes any day!

I found a project in my latest Birds and Blooms magazine that I am going to make next spring along with planting lots of veggies again. It is a bird bath and it is two terra cotta pots butted together with a saucer on top that you decorate with mozaic pieces. Looks fun and pretty. We love to attract birds here in the garden. After our sunflowers die we take the heads and hang them in trees and over posts so the birds can feast during the harsh winter months.

Vegetables

A friend of mine said I didn't need to add pictures for every blog. So thank you Rosemary.

This summer growing season has been fantastic. We have grown more this year than last and hope to venture into growing new things next year. So far we have had an over abundance of Zuchinni and Crookneck squash. I have made 8 loaves of zuchinni bread and lots of zuchinni soup and froze so far. Have given away so so many of both zuchinni and crooknecks and still have lots left. They are also still growing.

The tomatoes have done really well too. I have blanched, peeled and frozen quite a few, eaten lots and they taste so much better than store bought. Of course everything tastes better when it's homegrown.

We planted white corn for the first time and I tasted my first ear today. OMG! it was absolutely delicious! That is a definite do again next year. We also grew cucumbers this year and they are delicious too. Last year we grew the pickling kind and they weren't as good. We had a friend come over and take most of them for pickling. A couple of days ago I had a cucumber, zuchinni sandwich. Wow! it was yummy.

I planted some wildflower seeds and had all kinds of pretty flowers come up. Somehow I also got a tomato plant and of all things a cantelope plant. The cantelope has three small melons on it right now. I don't know if they will get big enough to eat of not but what a nice surprise.

After looking at Rosemary's potatoes she grew I want to try to grow some next year. They looked really tasty.

Even though the season is coming to an end I have to admit I had so much fun playing in the garden this year and reaping the benefits.

Goodbye summer. Hello Fall.

Good news/Bad news

Here is a pic of our huge sunflowers growing above the house. We didn't plant these! They are self starters from last years flowers. They shade the living room really well and it's like looking out into a jungle from inside. The bees and birds love them too.

Isn't this a nice looking BBQ? It's only been used a few times about three years ago while I lived in Sandpoint ID. Once I moved to Spokane it has been stored away. I decided to drag it out this last weekend and BBQ some chicken breasts. I marinated the breasts for two days and was so excited on Sunday to BBQ them. Jerry cleaned up the grill part and I got the chicken on it. It started to smell really good after about 5 minutes so I put the lid down, turned the heat down and came in the house for a few minutes. When I went out to check on it I got a big surprise.

The connection between the propane tank and the BBQ was on fire. I was so afraid the tank was going to blow up but I couldn't just let it burn. I had a squirt bottle handy that I was going to use on the chicken but now had to put the fire out with it. As you can see from the pic below, the plastic connector has melted onto the tank and also melted the connections together. The BBQ is toast. It is going to the dump. I was so disappointed that I had to put the chicken in the oven to finish cooking. I think I will go back to the old fashioned charcoal briquet style of BBQ.

Long Beach Harbor California

I forgot to post my mother's 82nd birthday lunch pic on my last post. We had a beautiful time at the Kings Estates Winery. My family seems to think I look like Sarah Palin? Funny no one came up to me or stared as if I was. Hmmmm

This is Lacey (Doreens cat) and she is keeping my chair warm for me till I see her again.
We became very good buddies while I was visiting. She is such a sweetie!

Doreen and I had just eaten at Bubba Gumps

I need to go on a diet after eating there.

Here I am on the Aqualink feeling the spray of the ocean. What a wonderful feeling. We were both pretty sun burnt later that day.

On the left is the shoreline of Long Beach

Below is the Hyatt Hotel

Left is my best friend Doreen.

Below is taken from the Aqualink looking back at where the Spruce Goose used to be and also the Queen Mary that's still there.

I had a wonderful time visiting Doreen and time went by too quickly. We went to the movies and saw Phelam 123. Also rented Australia which I had seen but wanted to watch it again since it is so good. Ate out a lot. Slept in till 8:00 everyday. Stayed up late. Got to see Doreen's daughter new place. Just had a great time all in all. I need to go back more often. I used to live there about 14 years ago but everything has changed so much I don't recognize much anymore.

Oregon vacation

Had a great time on vacation. Got to see my parents and brother in Oregon.

These are pictures of Cape Perpetua which is north of Florence near Yachats.