Sometimes I really don't know where the time goes. Summer went by so fast, and the Fall was just a quick blink. Have to say though, this past Fall was really nice. Beautiful color and nice weather. Nothing like 2018 - rainy and cool. No color to speak of at all last Fall.
Got most of the garden stuff (pots, chairs, decorations, etc) put away almost a month ago. I still have to trim down the shriveled peony stalks, dead tall garden phlox leaves, and cut back the sprawling Siberian Iris leaves. I decided to leave the Foxgloves alone. The leaves are a bit frost bitten, but still pretty green. When it gets colder all I'll have to do is put down some mulch here and there. About a month ago, I also had planted some daffodil bulbs (about 20) in a spot that could use some color in the Spring. All in all I was pretty satisfied with my gardens this past year.
In the past 2 years I made my gardening areas smaller than they used to be. Really saved my back and knees. And watering too. I still have 3 huge Catmint plants that I didn't get around to moving this year ( kept putting it off) so Spring 2020 I'll move them to my back garden that gets a lot of afternoon sun. That will finally eliminate a garden area that I had in the front of the house (near the street).
Now, let me tell you about HUNTER. We adopted him from a shelter on October 21st. He is such a cute, little sweetheart! He's now 4 month old and he is so much fun! We had been thinking for quite awhile about adopting a kitten. We lost our boy, PATCH, about 3 months prior. Patch was a part feral we took in almost 8 years ago. He had showed up at a friend's house, and she couldn't keep him, so we had taken him. He was an indoor/outdoor cat, but still very feral in many ways. We had him neutered when we first got him, but it didn't turn him into an indoor cat. He preferred being outside, but was always home for meals and hugs. The last few years he did spend more time indoors during the winter, but in the warmer weather he would be out most of the time. We don't know what happened ... he was just out one night and never came home. We searched for him, put a pic in our community paper, but had no luck. He was not social with strangers, so we knew he would never have gone to anyone he didn't know. There are feral cats in our development, so we like to think he might have decided to join a feral cat colony ... but in recent years there has been an increasing rise in the number of coyotes up here in the mountains. It is no longer unusual to see a dead one that had been hit by a car lying along the side of a main road. A lot more red and gray fox, too. We miss PATCH terribly.. and that's what probably made us go and visit the animal shelter. Our new boy, HUNTER, will be strictly an INDOOR cat. He is adjusting very well and is very happy!
I posted some pics below of our new kitty.
Well, anyway ... Have a wonderful Thanksgiving all!
Jane
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