Holiday Season Upon Us

Catchup time!

First, produce from the garden:  Arugula and our first baby tomato:

 Next, our deck was replaced:

Then the frost and freeze hit us for two nights, and no more cukes or beans.  :(  We do have broccoli, cabbage, collards, radicchio, kale, spinach and romaine still growing, though. They have done well through the frosts.  Still have some tomatoes holding on.

Not only did the frost hit, but our fridge went out and our H/VAC system!  It was an expensive month.  Fortunately, we had heat just in time.  This is the fourth time our fridge has gone out in the last 4 years.  What is it with us and fridges???

Then Thanksgiving came and we went to our daughter Michelle's home for a few days.  Our son, Tristan, and his girlfriend, Tracy drove down from New York with their dog, Lilly (bulldog on the left) and they stopped at our home to see it for the first time.  They also helped move some furniture around.  That night we watched old home movies around the time Tristan was 5 just to show Tracy what a cute kid he was.  Tristan is in the middle back with Tracy on Gary's right.  Michelle is in pink and her hubby, Brian, and 6 kids (4-14) are in front.  The Mastiff is Daisy.

 We ate a lot, but exercised too and the weather was perfect on Thanksgiving Day.  

Now we have to do some landscaping around the deck and front and get ready for Christmas.  That will entail a trip to North Carolina near New Year's.  But more on that later.

Oh, and yesterday, for the first time since we got the house in April, Gary and I managed to make it back to the end of our very woodsy five acres.  It was very grown up with briars and probably some critters we didn't want to see during the summer, so we waited till now that things have died down a bit.  We need to get it fenced so we can get our goats this spring.  However, we had no idea what it looked like.  Now we know and it's not as bad as we thought.  We are hoping to do the fencing ourselves with a person who has done fencing before to help us.  Should be an adventure.

Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful and relaxing.

Life's still good...