It's almost Halloween and we are still gardening. We have tomatoes, but they ripen much more slowly. We have bell peppers, they grow more slowly, but taste great. We planted 3 boxes with winter stuff and the spinach is doing great, as well as the chinese greens, and winter lettuce, but they do grow more slowly than in summer when there is so much sunshine. Since sunshine equals flavor in vegetables, it will be interesting to see how these do. I have been told lettuce only gets so flavorful and it doesn't make much difference. I figure by next week we will be eating the spinach and the greens. The zinnias are still putting on a show, and I haven't cleaned up the heads because I think they might drop more seeds into the ground for next year.
We put in a new back door and had a roof built to keep the rain off of the door. Jon Lopez, a friend in our ward is a talented builder. He did the work quickly. It's too rainy to paint right now, though. You can see the old tongue and groove siding that is on the house. I like it. Jerry has purchased new siding to put over it and will do that as he feels like it. Maybe next summer we can paint and he will be done. We told the Girl's Camp director that we aren't coming to camp next year, since our two year calling was finished. That will be at least one week where we could get something done. This past summer was very full with scout camp, girl's camp, day camp, and I can't remember what else, but it left very little time to do our big chores.
It'll get done eventually.
