The Garden

     We took a little trip to California Tuesday through Thursday of this week.  The Goodwife looked into going into business, the business of selling stuff to sewers and quilters and the like.  I looked into the golf course.  We had some great seafood and an all around general good time. 

     I’d love to show some pictures of all this, but. . . I left my camera in California.  Other than the golf course, I had some pictures of the newly planted wheat.  Of course they were the best pictures I’ve ever taken, but they got away.

     Well, the year is about over for the farming enterprise.  The wheat planting started September 19.  Social obligations and wet weather kept me at bay until September 26.  The first wheat I planted was coming up.  Again I had to leave to do a barbershop performance.  I returned to plant on the 29^th and finished on the 30^th.  If all goes well (it doesn’t rain a ton per minute), that job is done.

    So when we returned from California, the nice Fall days came to an end with a nasty cold front and the first frost of the season.  Can’t leave the tomatoes and beans out in the cold, or they’ll be no good.  So all day Friday, I harvested and cleaned up the garden.

      It looks like a nice day, but it was cold and windy and exhausting.  We fired up the old wood stove for the first time this season.  A bag of beans and a tableful of tomatoes was the net for my day in the garden.

       Nothing to do but sit by the fire with a plate of tomatoes and green beans and remember when it looked like this:

     It’s October so back to Kansas we go.  Suitcase Farmers!