Frost............

I think it's strange that we are having first frost here in GA and my daughter in Mi is having first hard frost this week also. Of course ours isn't a killing frost, but it is late for MI. My mother is near Traverse City and when I talked to her on Saturday she still hadn't had a killing frost

It can snow here anytime after October first. We've had about 2 inches overnight, the grass and cars are covered with about an inch and a half. Our last measurable snow was on Mother's Day. That's what you get for living on the lee side of one of the Great Lakes.

We are having the best possible weather here! Sunny, low humidity, 70 - 80 by day, 45 -65 by night: delightful!

No, not snow here. Haven't had frost yet either but that could happen anytime.

I have ordered a lot of spring bulbs to plant this fall so that is what I have been doing lately.

We haven't had a killing frost yet, but this is what comes of living on the higher elevations in the lee of Lake Erie.

Snow is lovely - to look at - on someone else's property.

Heavy, heavy fog every day until Noon or later.

"TheWeatherChannel.com" says mostly lows in the low 40s for the past week and predicted ahead in my ZIP code. The coldest night so far was "41".

I guess that's pretty average according to TWC and my fuzzy memory, but some site said my average date for the first "32" nighttime low is Oct. 26, and I'm 90% likely to go below 36F by Oct 30. They can't both be right!

Rick, I've tracked my killing frost for the past several years, and it is almost always at or near Halloween. We may get some lighter frosts beforehand, and lots of plants will still gamely try to hang in, but after spook night it's pretty much done.

My fog today never lifted, just got thicker.

Right where I am, it seemed to have lifted, but it didn't lift very high. Driving toward a hill, I could see the hilltop still hidden.

Low flying clouds!

I hate, hate, hate snow. Eeewwww..................I have had to work in it all day for umpteen years I don't care if I never see another snow in my life. However, living where I do, that pretty much a given it will be part OF my life. Can't see moving, unless it's to plot 1-A in the cemetery. LOLOL

We are still having warm, (60's) sunny days, no rain for weeks, and frost most nights. Leaves have started falling. I've watered the garlic again so it will wake up and start growing roots before the ground freezes.

Arlene, I'm guessing you grow creole and other softneck types of garlic. Up here in the north, we grow mostly hardnecks. I hope your produce is selling well at the markets.

Yesterday I finished digging the potatoes, left them in 2 wheelbarrows in the garden shed overnight, and will get them into the basement today. Winter squash has been in the shed for 2 weeks, and now that the basement table isn't covered with ripening tomatoes, that's where they will go. The tomatoes are back in the basement, in 11 quarts. We ate what didn't fill another quart, and I have a big bowl of ripe since canning day tomatoes on the kitchen counter. Looks like we will be having tomato something..... maybe chili, spaghetti or both. Or I might prepare them as for canning and then freeze some. Could make pints instead. Obviously, I'm undecided.

Mary, you are so organized and everything you picked and put up sounds yummy.

Rita, I only look organized on paper.

Yes, perhaps, but some of us can look disorganized even on paper.

Well, you get a lot done so you can't be too dis- organized!

I am really busy planting bulbs this fall. Went totally overboard and ordered thousands but it will look so pretty in the spring. Mostly Tulips, daffodils and crocus but some others also.

SU left home at 7 this morning for the field, so I'm thinking it's gonna be a L O N G day for the 3 of them. The 2nd grain cart busted a shaft, so that is out of commission and won't get fixed till Monday, probably, as DS#2 that works in the machine shop where they took it has stuff he HAS to get done before that. One day last week the SU told me that they filled 24 semi's. They can take off a lot of corn with those 2 huge Deere combines with the 12 row heads.

The grands and I will take Grampy his lunch in a little bit and maybe they can even have a ride with Grampy in the tractor with the grain cart, or Uncle Brett in the Combine.

Anna, I thought for sure you were going to say you were going to do some baking!
24 semis? Holy Cow, that is a lot!

Mary, we do grow Creole and some softneck garlic, but we still have had luck with other hardnecks too. And it's probably just luck! We went to market yesterday again, mostly because we have gobs of sweet potatoes, but we took the garlic and honey as well. People were surprised we still had garlic left because we usually sell out. I think we have about 15 or 16 varities. It was really cold so there wasn't a lot of traffic like usual but we did okay. That's it for the year though, so we'll be eating sweet potatoes a lot!

No one in my family had big farms with combines or anything else I remember. Mostly they were cherry farmers (Traverse City, MI area) but I remember the awe of all the workings of the farm and the animals (cattle, pigs, chickens). When I got older we helped pick cherries and I do remember hanging bags of dried blood on new cherry trees to keep the deer away. Now they just shake the trees. I did help run the belts one year and get the cherries to the cooling tanks. And we always had a huge garden (5 acres) and we did lots of canning and had a root cellar filled every fall with squash, potatoes, etc.

Maybe that's why I love farms now. They're a lot of work that most people don't appreciate. It's a shame when kids don't even know where their food comes from, other than the grocery store or fast food chains!

Rain!