This morning I noticed some orange leaves on the Virginia Creeper vine on our fence. The leaves will turn bright red before they fall. I see tinges of yellow on the poplar and another tree. Fall is starting to fall, so far in slow motion. The difference in the daytime temperatures is noticable, nights are about what they have been for the past 2 weeks. That's fine with me. It's a comfortable time of year, with less wind than we get in the spring.
I helped the neighbor with the sheep, doing sorting, loading and hauling some to the sale. He sells a lot of locker lambs, has the slaughter truck come to the farm for that, but had more lambs than customers. Same with the beef, so he also hauled some steers and heifers that were close to butchering weight. Pasture gets short and dry at this time of the year with no more irrigation water flowing, and no rain since June.
My elephant garlic has been resorted and weighed, boxed and taken to my neighbor who will resell most of it to the man who buys several hundred pounds per year from him. He wanted seed garlic, big clumps that don't have to be pretty. The income from that will pay for the new garlic varieties I ordered yesterday. I have some to sell at the farmer's market, some to eat, and saved about 25# of the biggest clumps for my own seed stock. It's pretty good when I can recover my initial investment the first year!
