waiting for the coffee

i got up a bit late today, fed the cats, gave fawnie her meds...
watered the budgies
poked around the net.....now i am waiting for my coffee
i got the back door open, as it is blessedly cool and it appears maybe........less humid?
i hope so as i need to hill up my leeks again
NEXT year i trench them differently..
my little garden is not very productive this year.. it's overgrown with weeds as well
i think i'm a bit tired of struggling against the shade.
and with all those rains it sort of got away from me this spring

i do however have a spaghetti squash vine growing and so far no sign at all of borer! i planted the seeds july 1....so i am going to start doing squash and pumpkins like that.

bernie is off a few days next week......which means we get some wood stacked... and a few other things.
i am planning 10-12 cords but i am not sure where we are going to be putting some of the cords.
i will also put diatomaceous earth under the cords, and also a weed barrier- i found that when i do that we don't get too many ticks in the house in the fall.

we were planning on running down to the purveyor saturday but i realized that since bernie's got off......and the purveyor has thursday/friday only sales....we'll go when the sales are on...this way too he can help with some of the chicken

we're about ready for fall and winter....after the wood and the chicken, all we have left are the potatoes..
normally we get 100 pounds of yukon gold, and 50 of the russet bakers. i think this year we'll get 50/50/50 reds, golds, and bakers. i think i am going to dry and freeze a bunch right in the very beginning of the season.
i always feel much better when this stuff is all done..... like winter can come on and we'll be able to meet it head on...

we also could use bedding straw, i wish i could get a good price on 15 bales. i know it's not full load, not like a 100 bale load but at 7 a bale....it's a lot.....out at the farm, feed hay was 3.45 a bale... i could use a good deal like that.
did that all just make sense?

now that i have my coffee...........
maybe i will be more coherent now.
or maybe not

we got a few more mice in the traps in the kitchen... i am hoping we get some more of the house holes filled.. but with a field stone foundation.... that may not be the easiest thing to do
and i am thinking that the partial dirt floor doesn't help
but we got a few more.
i am going to get the stuff for the attic next month...... that should also help
maybe  a duck in a diaper in the house would help the most....ducks LOVE to eat mice
much more then my former barn cats ( laperms were originally barn cats)
oye

ok off i go
if the weather holds i am going to take pictures that i know i owe everyone
prepare then for days of pictures!

ok off i go