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It has been unseasonably warm and humid here at mum's. Thistle and are not fans. We'd acclimated to the cooler crisper weather of Autumn back home in PA. However, winter is coming and with it more comfortable weather.

Imagine the horrors that await next week when we're nearer Halloween ... might it be a photo of freshly shelled peas? 😲

What a delicious photo. The varied textures and shapes are so wonderfully interposed from the grass to the stone blocks. This is one of my favorites.

I was gonna say that ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALBERT! Btw, how big a cake did you have to make to have room for all the candles?

Thank you Carlos ...

Okay, so you're talking hard freeze rather than just frost. I've grown collards back in PA that I harvested in very late December, a couple days before New Year's. I cooked them up as part of a traditional Low Country New Year's Day meal. They survived frost and some light snow before that last harvest. I've also over wintered spinach that I planted as a fall crop. Mulched the garden bed with chopped straw and leaves in December when the plants went dormant. Once the bed thawed in early March the plants sprouted new leaves and I could begin light harvesting earlier than if I had grown from seed. That was five years ago before I started spending winters in SC with mum. I might see if I can find some spinach seed here to plant as a winter crop. It doesn't get cold enough for the ground to freeze so I think it should work. If I can keep the deer from eating my crop. We're at 14 feet.

I thought frost improved the flavor of kale. I know it does collards and Brussel sprouts.

Not sure who's thoughts are whirling faster, Sawyer's or mine. I know too much and yet not enough so I'm simply going to finish with ... this chapter is incredibly well done from conception to execution, thank you.

Not all antibiotics work on all bacteria. Some have become resistant to certain antibiotics and some just naturally are tougher. I had sepsis a few years ago and the bacteria responsible required one particular antibiotic to treat it others were ineffective. Interestingly it's a bacteria found in soil, it also has a reddish hue and can live on soap residue.

I didn't know there were bad days for a Bloody Marty ... er, uhm ... I mean Mary.

Well written and evocative of the time perhaps though they leave me a bit empty. I prefer a more personal connection.

Hi Page!

I am doing well enough thank you. Had a good morning. Mum and I went out for brekkie. Then took her mail-in ballot to the official county drop-off site. After that came home and spent a couple hours weeding and cleaning up the front of her house. Now though my head says it's time to rest quietly. Mum has an appointment later this afternoon with her eye doctor so I'll take her to that.

Well if in the middle of the night you were in your favorite spot and some crazy guy came along and told you to take a hike through a cold heavy rain to hang out in a boring old barn how would you feel?

Howdy Texy. I didn't realize Emperor of Texas and the Universe was an elected position. I thought it was self-appointed. BTW, congrats on voting. I received confirmation today that my mail-in ballot was received by the County Elections Office.

I use a piece of licorice root as a toothstick so the image stuck with me. I still have a hard time with the thought of them separating. I feel like they belong together. The way Coy looked over a naked Boone suggests to me he's not a zero on the Kinsey scale. Might he feel more than he let on because of the change in Boone after the broken nose. I'd like to know just a bit more about that kiss and the circumstances surrounding it.

I so wanted to laugh at the Santa cartoon but I'm sad and frustrated that everywhere we seem to going backwards.

Grrrrr, I'm not old. I'm adorably middle-aged. And we don't speak of my work for my Da.

Best of luck Albert.

So you're working on a short story. Hope things are well with Cole and Randy.

Unless he was aiming for something tasteless ...

Yes, I am in an odd frame of mind ... G'day y'all. The day should dawn bright and clear with cooler temps and lmore comfortable humidity albeit briefly before a return to warmer and more humid weather as the week progresses. I hope to pot up some mums and ornamental cabbages we bought yesterday and begin weeding some of mum's flowerbeds. It's becoming obvious she can no longer keep up the maintenance once I leave. Not sure what the solution is, I'll need to ponder a bit.

Note the blueberries grazing in the far distance. You'll have to look closely as they're shy creatures prone to hiding in the tall grasses. Perhaps it's their presence that has drawn the horses to the meadow.

It is however a strictly platonic relationship