The Joys of Fall

Well, as I write this, I'm in school during in-service (boooo), but it gives me some time to reflect a little bit about how this fall has been.

We've managed to shut down the the garden fairly well, emtpying out the raised beds, and getting a good sized load of cow manure for future use. My dad has a guy who's got a gazillion rabbit, who I might call to get some more fertilizer too. Our plants are all gone with some pretty hard frosts last month, but I'm all ready starting to get some ideas on what to do for next year. My wife thinks I'm crazy, but I want to expand out more, and use the extra space to try some grains. Maybe wheat or flax, but just to see what it's like to do something like that.

On the animal front, we are thinking of killing our one rooster because he's just a pain in the butt. He chases the girls around, scaring them. He chases my wife around, but not once has he made a move around me. It will be interesting to see what happens as I figured I'd give him another couple of weeks to see if the'd come around as our other rooster just vanished a couple of weeks ago.

Finally, I've bought a couple of heavy duty sets of shelives for our basement. One set has camping supplies on it, the other will move into our fruit room, and there, I feel like I have the makings of a true pantry.

Exciting time!! :)