Open Post and Garden/Cat Update!

The overgrown brussels sprouts... planted about 2 months too late. Live and learn! The tomato (bought from a big local nursery called Keller's Farm Stand) was one of two. Both were great producers and they are still going.

 

I'm slowly working on this garden. I put more mulch in it and I'm trying to grow the elm volunteers as a hedge in several places. My husband (he built this garden from scratch about five years ago based on a design I requested) has made noises about re-doing the crushed stone part in brick someday.

 

Nasturtium took over this garden. There are also a couple of very successful "Better Boy" bush tomatoes and some rose and sedum propagations. The pink flower in the back of the nasurtium bed is full of Takane Ruby buckwheat from RareSeeds.com. I don't know what to do with buckwheat, so I plan on collecting seeds and hoping I can direct sow it next year. I like it as an ornamental. It has been blooming consistently since early June this year.

This is Cedric, the tree I rescued from the back of the office building my lesson studio occupied. He is getting very large! The pear tree in back of him gave us our first big harvest of pears about a month ago.




Oakinawa the Oak tree surrounded by coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea), also had a growth spurt this year. Kiki's grave is marked by the iron kitty. I have plans on making that area into a garden but I did not do much with it this year.

Suggestions wanted for decorating the front room. I am aware the rugs are too small. I plan on putting up more hanging plants as time goes by. Should I do floor pillows? Ambient lighting such as LED string lights? Faux stained glass?

Shadow. He is going on three years old.

Ash. He is also around three, born around the same time as Shadow. He has fully come into his own and has quite the cattitude as you can see in this photo!

I am delighted to report Bee (short for Jujube) is in good health these days. She is not throwing up or having problems with peeing excessively anymore. A short regimen of herbs, mainly maca, devil's claw, amla, and kitty multivitamins seems to have brought her back from the brink. She seems to have de-aged a few years.  Nevertheless, please keep her in your prayers.