I am so glad that we finished the basement. It makes it so nice when everyone comes home. We have lots of room to spread out in and the kids have so much fun together. The grownups can visit while the kids play and we aren't on top of each other any more. I just wasn't very well organized this year. I didn't get the turkey in soon enough and so it wasn't quite as done as we would have liked it to be. I forgot to buy frozen white grape juice to use to baste the turkey like I usually do and I decided to just use a brown in bag. Oh, well, I'll do better next time. Annalise rolled out "90 billion" rolls and every single one was eaten by the time Saturday came around. I still have a little stuffing left, guess I'll add the last of the turkey and gravy to it and call it dinner tomorrow or on Tuesday when Brian and Kattie's kids are here.
The kids were all so much fun! Winnie and Ashlyn just played and played. I need to add to my dress up clothes, they just love dressing up. I need to add boy dress up clothes too. Aidan wore the cave man costume though. Too bad the elephant ears headband is broken. The big boys played Wii and DS games to their hearts content. There were even a few pool games played. I guess it is time to refurbish the pool table and get a couple of new cues. I think that you could say that a "good time was had by all". We really missed Kris and Kristi and their family. They couldn't come because they were all sick for several days. We watched Toy Story 3 and went to Burley for the new 3-D movie, Tangled. Such darling movies, very cleverly done!
Johanna and Annalise went home on Saturday, thank goodness, because I-84 is closed today and may not open for a day or so. Jenni left today after Lynn used the snow blower to clear out the road. Once she got to the freeway, her drive wasn't too bad.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Vegetable Garden
My vegetable garden was a true disaster this year. I don't think I have ever had such a bad garden. True, it did freeze hard on May 7th and then it rained for almost the next two weeks and I couldn't even plant until the second week of June, but I just was not a dedicated gardener this year. I usually get up about the same time as the guys go out to move water and work for a couple of hours every morning. I just seemed to have a really hard time doing that this year and consequently my garden is a big mess. The weeds have truly taken over. I went out today and raked up all the fallen apples and believe me there are bushels of them. We picked all the golden delicious apples, but the earliblaze just dropped most of the apples before they were ripe enough to use. Now I have a big stinky pile of them to dispose of. As if that weren't enough, because I let the weeds go so much, it is hard to rake up the apples and I am planting weed seeds with every pass of the rake.
I decided that everyday this week I would try to dig up 5 square feet of my asparagus bed. It has become completely over run with quack grass. Have you ever seen quack grass roots--they become a thick mass of roots that spread for several feet and about every 6 inches they sprout blades of grass. Between the quack grass and the dog digging it up, I don't have too much asparagus left. I'm tempted to just spray the whole mess with Round-up and start over! It's just that it takes so long for asparagus to really start producing and have enough to really eat. Now I know why my mom didn't have much of it in her garden. My dad made a 2x4 frame and nailed wire to it and we would sift all the dirt in the garden if there was any quack grass in it. We kids thought it was all fun and games to put that dirt through the sifter, but I'm sure now it must have been to get those darn roots out. Of course, my mom would never have let the weeds go like I did this year unless she absolutely couldn't work in the garden. I think of the raspberries she grew and I know there were never weeds in them. She somehow managed to keep them in orderly rows too. I'm not sure how she did it. When I married Lynn, his mom had raspberries and they were always weedy and unruly just like mine are. I wish my mom were here so I could ask her.
I was only able to can one five gallon bucket of tomatoes this year and bushels of them froze just when they were really beginning to come on. Lynn said that he would just till the whole garden up and I can start over next year. Sounds like a plan to me!
I decided that everyday this week I would try to dig up 5 square feet of my asparagus bed. It has become completely over run with quack grass. Have you ever seen quack grass roots--they become a thick mass of roots that spread for several feet and about every 6 inches they sprout blades of grass. Between the quack grass and the dog digging it up, I don't have too much asparagus left. I'm tempted to just spray the whole mess with Round-up and start over! It's just that it takes so long for asparagus to really start producing and have enough to really eat. Now I know why my mom didn't have much of it in her garden. My dad made a 2x4 frame and nailed wire to it and we would sift all the dirt in the garden if there was any quack grass in it. We kids thought it was all fun and games to put that dirt through the sifter, but I'm sure now it must have been to get those darn roots out. Of course, my mom would never have let the weeds go like I did this year unless she absolutely couldn't work in the garden. I think of the raspberries she grew and I know there were never weeds in them. She somehow managed to keep them in orderly rows too. I'm not sure how she did it. When I married Lynn, his mom had raspberries and they were always weedy and unruly just like mine are. I wish my mom were here so I could ask her.
I was only able to can one five gallon bucket of tomatoes this year and bushels of them froze just when they were really beginning to come on. Lynn said that he would just till the whole garden up and I can start over next year. Sounds like a plan to me!
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