Well...It rained

It finally rained and my potatoes are growing like weeds but unfortunately so is the grass. Mowing is something I hate.
I recommend everyone (that is if anyone actually reads this blog) check out a website called Open Congress. It lists the bills currently being proposed by our supposedly respectable representatives.
Pictures to follow of garden.
And please Support The Troops. I don't mean buying a ribbon. Smoky Mountain Knifeworks has a program where you can purchase a soldier a knife. It could save his life.

Rain would be nice

Put the potatoes in last week and Black seeded Simpson lettuce is coming up. The tempatures have been in the low 80's this week so things are starting to green up. Other than this it's been business as usual. I hope everyone else is doing well.
Ron, where are you?

Long time no write

I know I haven't written lately, but not much has been happening. It hasn't been bitterly cold around here, just in the 30's mainly. I hope to get a sod cutter this year. Even if I can't I definitely plan to have a bigger garden. More to come soon.

My Favorite Time of Year

Well, things have been kind of slow lately. The tempature is dropping a little and I'm just enjoying sitting outside, smoking my pipe and watching the critters. I've been canning jalapenoes as they ripen and funny thing is now that the mercury has dropped the tomatoes are maturing like crazy and mostly without giant cracks.
As far as fall planting and upkeep, I planted some garlic cloves and laid out some lettuce seed(Black Seeded Simpson). I also topped off the compost pile with a big bag of leaves.
I almost forgot to mention that my parents gave me their old washer. My apartment in Plano came with a washer and dryer but since I moved here I've had to go to my parents house to clean my clothes. It's funny how excited I got when I got to go out and buy a clothesline. It seems to me that clothes dry a little faster on a clothesline than in a dryer but that's just conjecture. I hope everyone is doing well and flourishing.
Jerry

I Want To Can Everything!

I canned two jars of my homemade salsa today. I did much better this time and learned from my initial mistakes. Now I want to make pickles and everything else preservable with a hot water canner. Any and all recipes will be welcome and good luck to you all.

Hurricanes Can Be Good

We've had cooler tempatures lately thanks to the current crop of storms. It's not common for us to have a real fall so I've been enjoying it. I love this time of year, the smell in the air and cool breezes. The bell peppers and jalapenoes have been flourishing and I have been taking advantage of this. I 've frozen the bells and used the japs for salsa. The extra jalapenoes I am attempting to pickle. I've never canned before so my initial effort appears to not be great.
I'm planning to can some batches of salsa in the next day or two and since I've learned a lot from the internet I'm sure it will turn out better.
Other than that nothing's going down around here.
Hope everyone else is doing well.

Lack of Interest

As you can tell I have not been posting lately. Conditions around here went from drought to heavy rain overnight. As a result all of my tomatoes split open and are to differing degrees ruined. My few melons did the same and the pillbugs came in and chewed them up. The only plus this season has been squash and a few bell peppers. There may be some jalepenoes, but I'm not going to bank on those yet.
I'm working on getting a new job and focusing on getting out of the hole I've been in the last few years. I'm not going to give up all together, but right now I could care less about most anything but money.
I'm off to join the sheeple. I'll keep ya'll updated.