Good afternoon everyone, This is Columbus Day, and the store is quite busy. It is a cloudy, rainy, cool day. We are grateful for the rain. So far, this fall has been dry. There is not much going on in the gardens or fields. Outdoor work is slowing down. Our sweet potatoes produced very well, [...]

Good afternoon everyone, We are again enjoying a beautiful, warm summer day. We were blessed with a nice amount of rain giving our lawns a boost. They are green again. I picked my first vine ripened, yellow tomato last week and enjoyed a delicious BLT sandwich. Ladies are busy with canning peaches, tomatoes, applesauce, etc. [...]

Good Afternoon,                                                                                  7-15-24 We are having a sunny, slightly hazy, quite warm, summer day. Last evening while sitting with my family on the back patio the breeze felt a bit cool. It is nice when the nights are cooler. The gardens are still doing well. Green beans need to be picked and canned. Fresh cucumbers [...]

Good Afternoon, Did we fast forward to August? The calendar still shows June, but we have been having exceptionally warm weather since Monday. I am thankful for shade trees and a nice, gentle breeze. The thermometer shows 88º at 12:45. Looking out the window I see pale sunlight, fluffy white clouds in a slightly hazy, [...]

Good afternoon to you all,                                                          4-15-24 We are enjoying a beautiful, sunny day. It is warm with the air a little on the cool side, which makes it perfect. We have had a lot of rain in the last few weeks leaving the gardens too wet to get into. I noticed a few tiny pea [...]

Good afternoon everyone,                                                                       3-19-24 The sky is overcast. Occasionally the sun will shine softly, as if through a haze. It is windy and cold, 38° at 1:04 PM. This morning, we had a little snow on the ground from the squall last night. The weather has put a “hold” on our gardening urge. A week [...]

Good Afternoon,                                                                            2-12-24 This morning, we were blessed with a calm, quiet, frosty morning. When the sun penetrated the hazy sky, the rays were a soft, shimmering, light illuminating the silvery frost on the grass in the yard. The temperature was 29°. Now at 2:00 PM the sunshine is still faintly hazy. We are having [...]

Good Afternoon,                                                           1-15-24 Here in Ohio, we are experiencing real winter weather. There were spots of black ice on the roads on Friday PM with rain and snow mixed. On Saturday we got a little snow with strong winds and colder temperatures. We had 9° on Sunday morning and still very windy, but the sun [...]