From: pintiha@jhmi.edu   
      
   On Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 9:41:31 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:   
   > felt good to be outside with some sunshine and it   
   > warm enough to raise a sweat when digging and mixing   
   > some wood ashes in a garden so i can get some garlic   
   > planted in there this week.   
   >    
   >   after that i got back to the ditch/pallet project   
   > and finished getting that ready for the drain tubes   
   > i will pull out of another garden.  one project    
   > always is a chain reaction around here...  :)  i    
   > still have a lot of pallets to deal with, but for    
   > the moment they are not in the way.  the large   
   > chunks of concrete i have some nice slabs i can use   
   > for yet another project (next year).   
   >    
   >   we did get some peppers picked the other day   
   > even if we did have a few hard frosts they were   
   > protected enough by the foliage to not suffer too   
   > much damage.  i think those will be turned into   
   > some chili eventually.   
   >    
   >   tomorrow a good chance of rain so i may either   
   > be breaking up garlic and planting, washing windows   
   > or sorting beans or cleaning up some inside.  this   
   > time of the year i'm usually putting off all cleaning   
   > i can because the dust/dirt from beaning, but i    
   > better make a small effort to get some of it off   
   > the floor before i start to hear grumbles from the   
   > management.  haha...  i'm surprised she hasn't    
   > mentioned it yet actually, when it gets to dust-   
   > bunny stage it begins to bother even me.   
   >    
   >   just a few beans here or there left to pick as    
   > the hard frosts did finally stop even the plants   
   > i was thinking might have some more tolerance for   
   > frost.  well, at least that answered that question.   
   >    
   >   i hope everyone is having a nice fall season and   
   > able to get ready for the cooler weather.   
   >    
   >    
   >   songbird   
      
   Our overnight temperature dipped into the upper 30's the other night with   
   frost warnings, so I brought all the citrus trees into the greenhouse and my   
   wife took cuttings from the coleus plants out back. The frost didn't get this   
   far south; our    
   temperatures are more moderate this time of year because we're only a few   
   miles in from the Chesapeake Bay, which is still relatively warm.    
      
   We finally got some rain after a long dry spell. Looks like on-and-off showers   
   for the next few weeks so I'll have to do any outdoor work on the dry days.   
      
   Paul   
      
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