Check it off from the To Do list.  The garden is nearly done for this year.  It is almost hard to believe, but only last month (seven weeks ago) it looked like this.

Everything was so green.  Those squash vines were going crazy!  We harvested over three dozen butternut squash this year.  Sylvia will be happy to not see a tomato in the near future.  We ate and will eat well from this year’s bounty.

Yesterday, we had a little relief from what has been a very rainy pattern.  The morning brought sunshine and mild temperatures.  Sylvia donned her work clothes and when I took a break for a fresh cup, she was out prepping the garden for winter.  This morning, I looked out the window to see this sight.

Looks dreary, right?  Only asparagus and rhubarb remain.  Yes, dreary.  And damp.  After a late lunch yesterday, I retrieved the mail and went to put it on the kitchen table.  That’s when I heard, splat.  Splat.  Rattaty tat tat tat, etc.  Within seconds we were in a deluge.

This morning I found 1.3 inches of rain in the gauge.  We are getting caught up on all the rain we missed earlier this year.

One more task remains.  I’ll go to the neighbor’s and return with a load of natural fertilizer, which I’ll then apply to the garden.  What will my lady plant next year?