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- Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano
I think the morning after the snow is always fun for the kids, and a good thing that today is Saturday and most of us don’t have to work. It’s so bright and white outside that I decided to use a polarizing filter to cut down on the glare of the snow. My backyard is covered with snow, I think we got anywhere from 4-6 inches of snow this time.
The cabbage bed was covered with snow, a good thing that I harvested most of it yesterday and will be making Spring Rolls today.
Max loves being outside.
The neighborhood kids were outside having fun, Lee didn’t join in since we were on a mission to snowman hunt.
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! by Kenny G
My Gmail Theme always tells me an accurate weather forecast, I could be inside and checking my email, and see the rain or sun showing on my screen. And late last night, I saw snow, I thought to myself sure enough it couldn’t have been and checked the weather in our area and it said light snow. I went outside to look, it was pitch-dark, but was flurries and didn’t think that it’d stick this morning. When I got up this morning, it was still there, but if I didn’t know that it snowed last night, I’d have thought it was a heavy morning dew that turned into frost.
The current weather in our area is now mostly sunny, highs in the upper 40s (40 degree Fahrenheit = 4.44 degree Celsius)
It’s hard to be a night owl and a morning person.
But here I am, visiting my garden at sunrise.
My cabbages are doing well, but I don’t know if it’d be ready to harvest by Thanksgiving, that’s next Thursday.
One of the biggest problems that I had last year and the year before was the leaves in my fishpond, so I had to come up with a way to prevent them from falling in there.
A soft net seems to do the trick here, I covered the pond last weekend and it’s catching many leaves thus far.
My cabbages are doing well, although they don’t have much room to grow but it looks like I’ll have enough to make spring roll by Thanksgiving.
I’m not surprised to learn that China is the leading in production of cabbages, followed by India and then the Russian Federation according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations.
I absolutely love the Autumn colors, it’s especially nice to see it in my own backyard.
- What about now by Chris Daughtry
It has been raining a lot lately, very gloomy and things seem very depressing no matter where you turn. As for most businesses in our area, they’re thriving, many are focusing on cost cutting rather than revenue generating since it’s a hopeless situation to bring in more business. It’s riding out the tough times, number crunching for many that work in the Accounting department, having nightmares about cash flow. It used to be that if you rubbed shoulder with the owner, then you have a job security, but not anymore, it’s most definitely you earn your keep these days. One thing that I’ve seen and learned, you don’t take your personal problems to work, and you don’t take work home, the two just don’t mix, Max knows what I’m talking about.
It has been a while since I last posted about my garden, the Summer just flew by and now we’re heading for the Fall season. I’ve decided to plant some Fall vegetables, mainly because I want to expand my garden, and have more planting space in the Spring, but I still have a lot more work to do.
Lee is putting her little touch in “her” garden, her latest additions to the garden were the mushroom and birdbath, and her job is to make sure there’s clean water in the birdbath daily.
I had to thin out my Water Hyacinth this past Sunday, they were taking over my pond and I’m glad that I did, otherwise I would have missed this Lotus flower in bloom (closeup image). Then I also saw a flower that my sister Sue gave me, I didn’t know what it was at first, and it has a very strong fragrant, very much like a Jasmine but a lot stronger, my sister told me it’s a Tuberose, and some people said that it smells very much like the Queen of the Night. The plant was given to her by Mae tou Sorn and she said that you can use the flower to Wai Pra (offering to Buddha). I’m glad that she gave me part of her plants and now I have a Tuberose in my garden, closeup image.
The tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa) is a perennial plant of the agave family Agavaceae, and the oil extracted from the flower is used as a perfume. Its a prominent plant in Indian culture and mythology. The flowers are used in wedding ceremonies, garlands, decoration and various traditional rituals, and I believed one being the offering flower for Buddhism.
I recalled when I was little living in Laos and Thailand that lotus flower is used for worshiping. And during my visit back home, I’m not surprised to see the Lotus flowers in front of the Wat (temple), after all it’s the sacred flower of India where the birth of Buddhism.
Below on the left hand side is Dork Huk, I’m not sure what it’s called in English but the Lao name is loosely translated as the flower of love.
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