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Fall is definitely here in New England. The leaves are bright hues of red, orange, and yellow. Ahh, the beauty is breath-taking. But I can't help but acknowledge the looming yard work that comes when all those beautiful leaves fall.

Our first daunting task however is moving all the cord wood we bought in the spring into our shed for the winter. Last weekend we moved the small amount of wood we had left from last year into our mud room and started our first fire in our wood stove. I love the sme… Continue

Today I turned this....

Into this....

Here's how:
First I pi… Continue

So, my edamame plants were doing great. I started to harvest and had about three great harvests of yummy edamame. Then, the leaves started to turn yellow and fall off. I'm not sure what happeded. I'll have to ready up on them. Maybe you don't get more that one harvest from them???

All and all, the garden this year has been a success. We had a bit of trouble with the green beans but we got a tremendous amount and variety of hot peppers. I also have some squash finally growing. The herbs as usual… Continue

So, as you may have seen in one of my photos, we recently had a tornado go through our neighborhood. We were fortunate enough to have our house spared from the hundreds of trees that fell during the store. We just had one tree down in the very back of our backyard and a broken window in the basement. So, right after the storm, we focused on cleaning up the small debris in our yard and not worrying about the tree.

Last weekend, we decided we needed to do something about it. We don't have a chain… Continue

Well, my edamame plants survived the recent tornado in NH and are doing well. There are lots of furry little pods on them. I can't wait to pick them. Hopefully it will be soon. They seem to be maturing slowly but maybe I'll have some edible pods by next week. Yum! If all goes well, I'll be eating edamame for the rest of the summer.