With two approaching cold fronts coming, I brought most of my potted plants inside Sunday evening. Monday and this morning were in the high thirties. That's cold to me but it's nice for sleeping. Thursday morning will be close to thirty on the mountain and in the sixties during the day. It's been a lovely October. Leaf colors are not as vivid as previous years but still enjoyable. It's been raining so I figured it was a good time to sit and type.
After complaining and whining, driving my friends crazy about the microwave issues, I just went to Lowe's last Friday and bought another one to replace this one that Cliff and James installed only four and a half years ago. The mother board had been replaced during the first year but stopped working about a year later. I kept paying for repairs. Charlie told me it would be better at this point to buy a new one. I bought the same style GE but in stainless steel.
During the summer when all the potted houseplants were all over the porch a small piece of this mother cactus broke during a thunderstorm. I was curious if I could pot the piece and give it a chance before the cold weather arrived. Summer on the open porch is easy on the plants. They get dappled shade days and summer rains.
Mother and daughter plants today. I keep a bag of cactus soil in the shed and placed the small broken piece in the soil and left placed it in the covered porch out of the harsh sun to see if it would root. It rooted and now has buds. Little things give me pleasure.
A few Saturdays ago I went to the big farmer's market in Blairsville to buy some butternut squash and one large Georgia Candy squash.
Last year when I bought one of these I had to ask Charlie to cut it for me because I couldn't do it. I've worked hard to get some muscle back so I could do more things for myself. This year I cut and scooped out the fiber and seeds then baked the four pieces.
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