Friday, August 8, 2008
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It is woooonderfully cool this morning! The air is clear and easy to breathe, the humidity is so far down. It's got me longing for fall and looking forward to the Feast of Tabernacles. But for now I'll settle for a few cooler days and nights, which it appears we're going to have. Thank you, Lord! You just can't trust winter squash. I've grown it a couple times, not very successfully, so I was most unprepared for what the plants could do when grown in good soil under good conditions. There's no stopping them. They refuse to stay where I want them, insisting on mingling with every crop nearby. They crushed the supports they were suppose to climb up and during a storm they toppled the popcorn they were suppose to gently grow around, not over. Some of the fruit of the butternut squash is larger already than the largest I've ever seen in the store. They can't be trusted. Next year I hope to have some 2'x8' raised beds in the orchard on the other side of the barn and they can just go crazy there, far away from my humble little garden. Or I'll try the method Herrick Kimbal suggested, over at my all-time-favorite blog, The Deliberate Agrarian. We still have traces of whooping cough. Apparently the bacteria that causes the infection has little hooks that keep it hanging on forever, even after they die. I still find myself with a tickle here and there, coughing to clear my throat of excess phlegm. Seth, too, coughs and sputters a little still. But nothing, nothing like before. The Lord had given me peace about our financial situation. Only after that did I find a little money I had stashed away and forgotten (stupid, because I had done so only last weekend! I'd set it aside for the dog's spaying). Bobby's paycheck today was larger than I had calculated. He got a call Wednesday night from my dad asking if he'd like to run some baseboard for a fella he's working with. Well of course! He'd love to! He started the next morning, yesterday. He and Dad are meeting in town and driving in together, since B's car's still not quite right and, well, it saves gas. And, he's getting paid very, very well (more than twice MO's maximum weekly unemployment pay). The work won't go on forever, maybe to the end of next week, but the Lord continues to provide as we trust him. |
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