Returning to winter

When I was in Taizé, my hubby texted me 

on October 2nd and told me that it was snowing. 

So I wasn't exactly surprised to return to this on Saturday morning:

 

All this snow so early doesn't make me very happy

because there are still things I needed to do in the garden.

But what can I do about it? Laugh and shake my head.

Especially since Suzanna did a wonderful job of keeping 

the tomatoes in the greenhouse happy.

Lee and Suzanna also did a wonderful job of digging 120 lbs of carrots

in a Friday night snowstorm, and everyone worked together to wash 

and bag them on Saturday. A million thanks to my family for all their effort!

I'm hoping that it will warm up enough for me to clean out

the raised beds this week and finish up the compost pile for winter, 

but if not, there's always next spring, sigh. 

It seems so far away, but time passes quickly

(though this might be a long winter...)

In the meantime, we'll enjoy our carrots!

Garden moodling

Today's moodling was all about... carrots.



About twenty lbs, chopped and blanched and in the freezer. Notice the Alexander Keith's premium white on the side. Made my blister feel better.

Our garden is one of our big efforts to live with less impact on the planet. Carrots, beans, beets, potatoes, etc. from the back yard are much tastier than the ones imported from the US and other places, and cost the environment much less in terms of soil degradation (we're organic growers) and greenhouse gases for production and transportation. Of course, Alexander Keith's brew had to travel across the continent to get to me, so back to Big Rock (a Calgary beer) if I want to live with less impact. Or maybe, no beer at all? I could have had a homegrown mint and lemon balm tea...