Sept-October 2012: Garden Wrap-up

Spicy in September

The garden in Fall (9/21/12).

Tomatillo plant took off in the fall - small fruits, but it gave us a few roasted salsa verdes for late nights on the deck.

Small crop of sweet red onions - all about 1/3 of the size I was hoping for. I've never figured out how to grow onions.  Maybe next year.

A volunteer tomato plant that appeared out of nowhere, surely started from the small tomatoes that we tossed to the chickens early in spring or the previous year. I just had no idea that our most prolific tomato plant would have been accidental, and not planted by hand.  These surprises keep me coming back for more.

10/28/12 - Late season unripe, green tomatoes.  We used these for pickling. (There are lots of ways to pickle veggies, from green tomatoes, to cukes, to zucchini pickles).

Coach, September.

Spicy munching on clover in the recycling bin (repurposed into a planter).

Morning glory seed pods - a saved about 50 for next year.

Butternut squash, grown up a net on the garage.

Late October garden, almost ready for bed.

Prep for Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 28, 2012, to make sure the chicken coop didn't blow away.  No damage for us, and only a very short time without power.

October 2012

 October was a busy month of running from thing to thing, often in the dark.  ...a surprise Regina Spektor concert, a fundraiser for SCLT, pumpkin picking in Southern RI with my colleague Michele and her kids, Chris' birthday and a class at XO Cafe with Chef Marty, the Steel Yard's Iron Pour, and Rosie's birthday/Halloween party.

 "Call them Brothers"

 Harvesting Hope 

 

Chef Marty 

 Iron Pour

Halloween

September 2012: Vermont

 We joined Chris' parents for a weekend in Burlington at the Willard Street Inn.  They set us up in the Tower Room (below) that had a view out to the water from our windows

In the back of their property, the owners' son had started a garden, with playful raised beds and a trellis that allowed him to string up his tomatoes and peppers. (The Tower room where we stayed is above, at the top).

Even the way he planted salad greens (in a circle) was interesting - I have to steal this idea.

Mike and the hostas in the shade.  

Spirit of Ethan Allen III Boat Tour on Lake Champlain.

 North Breakwater Lighthouse.

Face-like rock formation on the Appletree Bay side of Long Rock Point.

We missed the changing of the leaves by a few weeks, but saw its beginnings on the way home.

August - September 2012

AIDS Walk Rhode Island in late August. This is our second year participating.  I wouldn't miss it.

Springsteen rocking out at Giants Stadium in August. 

His performance of Wrecking Ball felt like a communal grieving.  In a stadium of tens of thousands of people, I couldn't imagine the pain that this group alone had carried. "Bring on your wrecking ball. The hard times come, the hard times go.  Bring on your wrecking ball."  A call to keep fighting.

Summer PawSox game with Bill's family. Love it.

Ollie.  Sleek.