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1. As many of our nights bring freezing temps, I have continued to cover the lettuce bed with blankets and am harvesting some lovely butter lettuce...
I ended up with about thirty green tomatoes after it started freezing. We had harvested maybe ten ripe ones during the season. I only like tomatoes that ripen on the vine, but I picked a few that had just started turning and managed to get a couple of decent red ones out of that. I picked about twenty green ones to make fried green tomatoes and left a few of the lesser nice green ones on the vine to turn back into the soil. It was such a disappointment not to get more ripe ones, but I planted too late for this area. Still, getting tomatoes is a HUGE treat since I couldn't grow them in Tucson no matter what! The fried green tomatoes are delicious too!
2. I have been extremely fortunate to make some wonderful finds of odd furniture pieces I have needed at really great prices by looking at Next Door (and also a little on Craigslist too) since we moved in. I had a little table I was "making do" with as a sewing table...and then I saw an ad for a real sewing table for sale for $25.! When I called I said we had no way to get it here, and they offered to deliver it (I gave them an extra $10 for that). Such an awesome deal! A couple in Redmond had kindly delivered my buffet a few months back also. Anyway, here is my wonderful new sewing table...
3. There was another benefit to this find! The couple who delivered it to us have now become good friends! Monte and Diana. We had them over the other day for a visit so we could get to know each other better. This is Diana's ADORABLE service dog, who was extremely well behaved. His name is Truman, because he was born on President's Day....
4. I've had several birds fly into our windows, and even found some blood on the window! I had to get something to keep them from trying to join us in the livingroom! It was also good to hang a couple of my hummingbird light catchers to help out.
5. Speaking of hummingbirds...I ordered a heated hummingbird feeder as soon as I found out the Annas overwinter here. It's amazing that the little guys stay, as cold as it gets! I understand they eat sap from trees that are pecked on by the woodpeckers, to keep from starving while there are no flowers. The heated nectar feeder should bring them back to my window because for three weeks they have been avoiding the frozen nectar I've had hanging there!
