October!

Fall is in the air finally. It's so nice almost perfect temperature wise but we haven't had rain in about 21 days so every one's grass is turning brown. If we don't get rain soon we will be under fire watches. Not that we are planing to have any fires.

PFC Erica

We celebrated Oktoberfest the beginning of the month at my Aunt Patty's the last night of Erica's visit. She brought two of her friends from the army with her. I don't think they slept the whole time they were here. Erica ran them all over showing them the sites. The springs, the beach, night clubs. I hope they had fun. The last night they were in town the whole family got together at Aunt Patty's even some family I hadn't seen since I was about five. Everyone brought a German dish to share. Lots of cabbage/sauerkraut was consumed. I think everyone had fun. We brought different German beers for everyone to sample. We even brought a pumpkin beer.


Sweet Potatoes



Sweet Potatoes





I harvested my sweet potatoes today. The vine had died back and with the dry weather, I figured it was time. I was so sad to find only four tiny potatoes. The vine had grown so lush and beautiful. And then to top it off they all had been bitten by a very fat, now dead, grub worm.  I hear in some countries people eat the grubs. Yuk! We have found quite a few grubs in our garden and they are all so disgusting. I plan on finding ways of getting rid of them.

I also have been growing a gator pear. For those of you not from Florida that would be a Florida avocado or slimcado depending on what store your shopping at. They are actually way more healthy than their southern cousins, the Hass, and you eat them when they are green not black. I got the seed a couple of months ago and kept it wet. I thought it had rotted when I noticed it had roots so I went ahead and put it in a pot and said "it will undoubtedly die there", but no, it lives. So now it is in it's much larger pot and I'm hoping for alligator pears for my salads in a year or two.  I was reading it could take 8 to 20 years. I'm going to have to read up on them to see if I can rush it along. I hope it's not like an orange and needs a graft to get fruit. We will see. It could be an interesting tree anyway.

Alligator Pear