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Hidie all, been lurking but uninspired. Remember Marietta's eggplants? Here's the After photo:

















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Mom had her last treatment Monday, for two weeks anyway. Fingers crossed, everyone, thanks.

The tyranny of the harvest is upon us. I'm cooking and freezing, cooking and freezing. Turning the pumpkins so they'll be tanned and shapely. Hanging bunches of herbs in the breezeway to dry. Soon, the neighbors will find canoe-sized zucchinis on their porches when they go out to get the morning paper.


And I have work. It keeps coming in; I'm employed at least halfway through October. I've paid the Feds. Vermont must wait a few more paychecks. Then I can buy fuel for the winter. And then maybe I'll send Calamity her patterns, which have been sitting on our table for months now.

Queen Of The House - Jody Miller

I just wanted to watch this a few more times.

Fat ,Fat water rat.

Thats me,so Im on an exercise binge.But its not so bad when this is the view from the top of the hill I walk the dogs up.

Almond blossom

I planted this self polinating almond 5 years ago This was the very first flower(for this season) about 1 week ago.Its been really windy and miserable though and I havn't seen many bee's ,so fingers crossed for some fresh almonds this year.Anouther shot when the sun and the rest of the flowers come out.

Rabbit Salad

Old man Digler enjoying his salad of kale, parsley, pear and papaya. 

New

La Luna.

We had a trip to the big island-back to my old stomping ground St Kilda.This is the entrance to Luna Park,an amusement park built in 1912.
Signpost in the community garden-more on this fantastic garden soon!
Then we got dressed up and went to a wedding.

Candy Pants

How much cocaine??????

Coney Island-backstage burlesque.

some great photos
some rude bits

Crocus

Getting a collection of these tiny treasures.These arn't the type but Ive got grand visions of growing enough saffron crocus to cook with

Eggs

The girls are doing their job.I couldn't decide which photo was more pleasing-the green of this bowl,with eggs ,it is so right.

Morning tea guest.

The tortoise and the hare

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Digler has crabs

I'm hoping this will post as a video 

Tomato Flower

Don't know what the bug is. 

Summer, over the top

So we're in the breezeway shucking corn. A breezeway is kind of a New England winter air-lock: the continuous architecture feature that connects the unheated barn or woodshed or garage to the mudroom (the final lock before you get into the house, where you shed your muddy boots) and keeps you from being lost in the blizzard when you go to get an armload of wood. Ours doubles as a porch during bug season, which thankfully has just ended. So, we're shucking corn and admiring Great-Uncle George's daylilies, which Dad has been mowing down every year before they bloomed. This year has been so wet that haying got severely delayed, and the lilies bloomed so I was able to find them in the 6-foot-tall grass and dig them up. Now I have 6 washtubs full of daylilies and noplace to put them because I was racing the tractor and didn't have time to make beds beforehand. But I will this week.

SO we're shucking corn, and I step outside to throw the husks on the weed pile, and there's this CLOUD. Maxfield Parrish lived and painted some 70 miles from here. This cloud apparently was looking for his studio and took a wrong turn at Woodstock.

A Visit

My friend Marietta came to visit. She brought us eggplants.









We hiked up a nearby mountain.



Dame's rocket and goldenrod were blooming in the open spaces.








In the woods, we found ghost flowers




and poison berries.

A horse is a horse.

Ollie and I spent the day cleaning out stables.
The fruits of our labours-Bags and bags of poo for the garden.

Thanks horses!

Daffs

The taller flowers are about 5cms.

STUFF.

Last week A. finished moving in and for a while I felt I was drowning in stuff.But now we are all organised and I'm back to loving all our weird junk.

Radio bit

I really like A's radio skit this week .If you arn't up with the latest unbelievable actions of our frightening government look here.

The Knitted Room.

A, showed me this fantastic project,I wish id known about it so I could have knitted something.