Well our garden in Wisconsin again yielded amazing bounty this summer!!
We use landscape fabric over the raised beds and insert seeds or plants into the rows when planting.
The porus fabric allows moisure in but retains more moisture in the soil when the sun beats down.
This fabric has allowed us to be absent as needed in the summer yet still yields a great crop of veggies at summers end.
This year we again had a very large harvest of cucumbers..i think probably 50 or 60!!
I made refrigerator bread and butter pickles until i could not do one more jar.
Some of the cukes were huge..the size of my forearm, almost 4 inches in diameter...all great eating and pickling. they do. Some Turn yellow quickly after harvsting but still made great pickles.
We also harvested alot of yellow plum tomatoes, tons of spinach, some cabbage and spaghetti squash.
What a joy to watch a garden grow...just amazing to me and a gift to our dinner table!!
Pics to follow!!
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Winter in the UPper Penninsula..2017
Well it has beeen an interesting winter this year. It started out with a bang the last week of December...with a 12 inch snowstorm. I think by mid February we had 130 inches. We have had cold and warm spells. We were gone to milwaukee for some family issues and had 18 inches of snow to remove upon returning 4 days later!! Yesterday it reached 50 degrees and sunny all day long!!
The skiing has been good but too often this year our volunteer work and family needs take us away from the sport we love. The snow got so plentiful that Dave has resorted to snow blowing our very long country driveway instead of truck plowing the snow away as there is no more rom to push the snow!!
The U P is famous for our fluffy almost daily snow that is not hard to shovel or plow as so light but if you dont keep up with it well it is a daily job sometimes....hood exercise for me!! I get to shovel the deck and sidewalk and dave does the driveway. We love the winters here. They are beautiful and quiet( except for our neighbors barking dog hehe).
It is peaceful retirement for us and a real blessing.living here. Working as board member ,volunteer manager and grant writer for our communtiy food pantry along with participating in a womens service club here keeps me busy with service work and Dave is super busy as a board member and volunteer trail groomer for our great cross country ski trails and we both teach free kids ski classes each sunday afternoon in Jan and Feb. So we have found our service strengths and it is a blessing as well. We love our part time jobs in retirement doing community service work on a weekly basis.
I will try to attach some great photos from this winter if my computer behaves🤣
The skiing has been good but too often this year our volunteer work and family needs take us away from the sport we love. The snow got so plentiful that Dave has resorted to snow blowing our very long country driveway instead of truck plowing the snow away as there is no more rom to push the snow!!
The U P is famous for our fluffy almost daily snow that is not hard to shovel or plow as so light but if you dont keep up with it well it is a daily job sometimes....hood exercise for me!! I get to shovel the deck and sidewalk and dave does the driveway. We love the winters here. They are beautiful and quiet( except for our neighbors barking dog hehe).
It is peaceful retirement for us and a real blessing.living here. Working as board member ,volunteer manager and grant writer for our communtiy food pantry along with participating in a womens service club here keeps me busy with service work and Dave is super busy as a board member and volunteer trail groomer for our great cross country ski trails and we both teach free kids ski classes each sunday afternoon in Jan and Feb. So we have found our service strengths and it is a blessing as well. We love our part time jobs in retirement doing community service work on a weekly basis.
I will try to attach some great photos from this winter if my computer behaves🤣
Monday, January 2, 2017
2016 here and gone
Hello faithful readers...so sorry any readers out there as i have abandoned my blogging in 2016.... caught up in facebook and instsgram.
The good or bad news hehe is that i am back in 2017 as i have abandoned my fb page...too time consuming and this election ...well it discouraged me from anymore political posts except environmental. You can also find more pics on instagram as that is my weekly post site....i will write soon when more time....good for my aging brain...hehe...happy new year to all!!
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