On Saturday morning I was up at 5:30AM and got my post up. I went out and made some tea and sat down for a while.
I like this flavor in my tea in place of cream and sugar and it means I get some protein in the morning.
I got the dehydrator emptied and got ¾ of a quart of loosely packed Swiss chard and topped up the parsley quart.
Never did get into the sun…
I puttered around a little but mostly sat and waited for the grass to dry. It was 11:30AM when I finally got off my butt and went out to mow. I did have to do up at the barn and I finished around 3PM.
The fairy as dusk falls over the New Herb garden
Tom called about 5PM and planned to come out and do the foliar until it got dark.
Tom putting Pinion on pumpkins Photo by Tom
I went out as dusk fell to get some photos. I noticed a large area of yellow flowers and it didn’t look like the usual goldenrod. Turns out it is a variety of goldenrod and somehow it got started in the wildflowers this year.
So I went into the front pasture to get a comparison photo.
Next I went to get photos of the pumpkins that had colored up. Tom and I had found a lot of them in our walk around.
There’s been no shortage of white pumpkins, ever. But I did want some color without buying it, again.
The nicotiana are a night flowering plant and Tom and I stopped to check out the scent. In the dusk, it had gotten pretty pungent but pleasant. He had gotten a good photo of the artichoke flower with the sun coming through. I hadn’t managed it with my old camera.
Dusk in late summer
Tom finished in the dark, around 7:45PM. I got the house shut up because it’s supposed to rain through the night and Sunday morning, into the afternoon.
My brother came home from the car show that all 3 brothers had gone to. He had won best of class and had a huge trophy! They had a grand time talking with other car buffs and it was a beautiful day.
On Sunday my 2 brothers and I are going out for breakfast and then I’m not sure if my youngest brother is going to the fair due to the rain. There’s no special event I want to see, so we will mostly wander through the livestock areas and the Roundhouse and the smaller buildings until the rain quits. I do want to ride the Ferris wheel but my older brother won’t. In that case, there’s usually a small child whose parents don’t want to and so they sit with me.
It would have been our 52nd anniversary.
