Trick or Treat

 

Trick or Treat 

We saw this house on our travels through Central Wisconsin.. I took a quick drive by photo. I would have loved to have seen it at night. And a tour inside.

Happy Halloween!

 

Raised Beds, Collecting Seeds and Buttoning Up

 

 

Hello Friends, we started a big project last week. We built a raised bed garden. I am so excited and happy about this, I cannot wait for spring. The photos of the project will be dirt, you will have to use your imagination to see vegetables and flowers.

My husband did most of the work. I helped when he asked me to move something or fetch something. I helped haul some dirt.

In the meantime I collected seeds and started to put our other gardens to bed.

 

French Marigold seed pods. Ready for harvest. 

 

 

The dirt pile! We had dirt hauled in and dumped in our driveway. We used wheelbarrows to move the dirt to the backyard to fill the raised beds.

I helped fill the wheelbarrows. I could not drive them around to the backyard,  that was all Jeremy.

 

 

I put away our birdbaths, planted spring bulbs and cleaned our other gardens. 

Jeremy also built me a tower or obelisk for my climbing rose. And another for a spring planting project I will be doing.

We put a layer of cardboard down, home compost and our brought in dirt into our raised beds. We are still thinking about what we will do for the paths along the raised beds. Pea gravel, straw, wood mulch? That will be a project for 2025. 

And I harvested a few strawberries to add to our fresh salads.

I am Nuts about Jeremy and it is time for the Hodgepodge

 

I am NUTS for this  fella!

 

Hello Friends, it is Wednesday, it is time for the Hodgepodge. 

Joyce asks the questions.

 We answer the questions.

Click here to join the fun! 

 

1. How did you meet your significant other? If you don't have a significant other, tell us how you met your best friend. 

 I met my husband working at the Supper Club his parents owned and operated. I was a dishwasher/waitress. He was a bartender/waiter/cook.

2. It's Department Store Day (October 16)...do you still shop in department stores? If not do you miss that kind of shopping experience? Do you have a favorite department store? Any fun memories of department store shopping when you were a child?

 

I use to shop at Department Stores. I do not do it much now. I did enjoy it.

One of my fun memories of shopping at a department store, was with my sister and aunt Sharon. We pretended to have foreign accents as we tried on clothing.  We laughed and laughed and laughed.

 3. Something you're currently nuts about?

 Going for walks with Ernie. I love this time of year with the colored leaves, crisp air and bright blue sky. I am also nuts about pumpkins. We live close to a pumpkin farm stand. All shapes, sizes and colors of pumpkins, gourds and squash. We purchased pumpkins for our pumpkin carving party, gourds for decorating and squash for eating. I already made squash soup, yum!

 

4. What's your favorite nut and is there a favorite recipe where this nut is used? 

My favorite nut is a cashew. I do not have a favorite recipe using cashews. 

 5. On Wednesday we officially reach the '70 days until Christmas' mark. Have you purchased any gifts? If you don't celebrate Christmas then how about Hanukkah presents? 

I have not purchased any gifts. 

I do have a list of what I plan to purchase or make for family and friends for Christmas.

6. Insert your own random thought here.   

A little bit of my autumn decorating... 

 

Happy Autumn Days!!