If you truly want something or anything done your way, then you'll have to do it yourself.
       ---Anonymous

According to the Almanac, today is the best day to:

Harvest below-ground crops.
Have dental care.
Pick fruit.
Plant below-ground crops.

According to this machine, the outdoor temperature is 31°F.  According to weather-dot-com, the outdoor temperature is 33°F.  Either way, it's colder than I'd expected.
This has increased my concern for the outdoor ( Read more... )

According to the Old Famer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

• bake
• can or pickle vegetables and fruits
• graft or pollinate
• make sauerkraut

But, I'm reckoning it ought to work for roses or other shrubs, probably scaling down the height.

https://www.bbg.org/article/how_to_wrap_a_fig_tree_to_protect_it_for_the_winter

Whether you think  you can or think you can't---you're right.

--- Henry Ford

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you are fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.
---John Spence (attributed)

According to the Old Famer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

Do nothing, rest up, take a nap, enjoy!

We believe we've sorted out why the big male cat has been vomiting.*

Emotional stress. He has a major case of separation anxiety. And, we think, he also experienced getting "ousted" from whatever human family's habitation he'd been living at, due to what we don't know, but judging from some of his other fears which too clearly are fears, he was for ( Read more... )

The local or regional weather forecasts are advising "Frost."

I've been reminding himself, gently, that he has two azalea plants and two roses and six young arbor vitae to get into the ground. It's my belief he's just dawdling so I'll make sure it gets done without him having to do any digging.
I'm of two minds. The roses and azaleas are beautiful ( Read more... )

According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

Cut hay

Get rid of pests and weeds.

And, in case you like keeping track of such things, it is only 65 days until winter begins.