fall fell

 Boy was it cold out there last night

        I do believe it got down into the lower  or mid 20s.  And it is not even Halloween!

    Friend John said there was some snow on the ground in Chicago yesterday.   Not a lot, but enough to show white on the grass.

    I picked my 4 last tomatoes today.   I also watered my new trees and disconnected the hoses so they don't freeze and cause a problem.

    But my big experience of the day was buying pumpkins.

    Now, normally I go into Flagg Center and buy them.  But this year I heard of a place out in the country but near our house, so I went there.

    I bought 3 pumpkins for $10.  Total!!  I bought a huge one for $5, a medium for $3 and a small for $2, and the small was about the size of a basketball!  I felt like I was stealing them, the prices were so reasonable.

    I have  thought about planting pumpkins on the lot next door, but I don't know what I would do with them.  Besides, these were a lot less expensive than all the time I would have put in on my own.

    Reflecting on my garden this year, it is clear I made major mistakes.

    No corn attempt next year and better watering methods. Those were the main lessons.  

    I am saving this for last, thinking Jackie does not always read the whole blog.

    I got gas.  Filled it up.  There was a car in front of me and the driver was talking on the phone.  So I went around them on the right to get out of the gas station.

    I did not know there was a curb.  Kind of like those concrete parking barriers, but it was a curb.  It looked like a n, with grass and pavement on the bottom of the sides.

    I bounced over the curb and stopped.  My front wheel was over the curb.  I could either continue forward and bounce the back wheel over the curb or back up.

    I chose to back up.

    It is not easy backing over a curb.

    I did check for damage and did not see any, but there was one hell of a thump!

    It was just a stupid place for a curb, in my humble opinion.

    But next time I will be a little more vigilant.

Peace and Love

My gingko has lost most of its leaves over the past  2 days!