Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 62 Entries. Tuesday, January 18 View Page Moved a little snow with these.   Tuesday, January 18 View Page No dandelions growing here   Tuesday, January 18 View Page Here is a better shot. Got a second storm a week after the first. Was not good to have my snowblower in the shop when this one hit. First storm was not good as it cooled off quickly and the snow was hard especially at the end of driveway from plow. A lot of machines ended up going to shops.   Tuesday, January 18 View Page Over on the left hand side of picture that is a path for the oil devery person. The city sidewalk snowblower came down the street and stopped 1 house down and then started again 3 houses up. I am at the center of a little snowdrift belt. Funny how certain places get it and 200 yds away not near as bad. Did my sidewalk in front of property also. That is life! Enjoy   Saturday, May 28 View Page I hope this changes but it is to be expected here as this is not even June   Monday, May 30 View Page The potatoes in the front are an old variety called Irish Cobbler and the smaller plants are Honeysuckle Yellow. It is a low glycemic variety that is very tasty. Researchers are testing different varieties to see if there are varieties that are even lower.   Monday, May 30 View Page My plan is to grow 4 plants. There are 8 plants are in the hoop houses so 1 in each hoop will be culled. They are planted side by each and back to back. By starting more than you need,you can really see the difference with vigor as some plants make the decision easy   Wednesday, June 1 View Page By this coming Monday overnight lows are supposed to rise all the way up to the high 40s. Prime growing temps!   Monday, June 13 View Page The one on the left side of picture is winning so far. The specks on the leaves are cucumber beetles which did not like the potato dust   Monday, June 13 View Page 1552 Young on the left is slightly ahead of the 1080 Young. Both are good plants but hoping to keep the 1552. It will be hard to cut either of these   Monday, June 13 View Page Plant on the right is far ahead of its sibling but want to wait a bit longer just in case something happens   Monday, June 13 View Page Another battle of siblings and the one on left is winning so far and I hope it lies down properly. I am keeping the plastic over the plants to stop the rain from washing the potato dust off. The goal is to break the cycle of cucumber beetles by getting them before adulthood and breeding. Leaving one end open because of the blistering hot weather that is normal in June around here   Monday, June 13 View Page Here is the next 7 days forecast. As you can see the heat will be overwhelming. Should be past frost but it is still only middle of June and have gotten frost 1st week of July and last week of August in the same year.   Monday, June 13 View Page Here is some Glass Gem corn that I have to start culling out. Started under plastic for warmth and did not even open it up on sunny days. Too bad that you cannot do that with AGs. Rain sure beats watering for growth on all the plants.   Sunday, July 17 View Page Glass gem corn. Some of the leaves are over 6 ft. tall and I would like to get over 9 ft. by the end. We will see how the wind in the forecast affects it   Sunday, July 17 View Page This pepper is called Habanero de Arbol. This variety can get very tall and big. That translates to habanero tree and from what I have read that is what it can be in the right area. You are not supposed to prune it till it gets much bigger if at all. About 100,000 heat units. There is also the more common Chili de arbol. It will not over winter outside in my area. The flowers start out pointing down and when pollinated turn so pepper is pointing straight up. I think mine are the orange coloured ones.   Tuesday, September 13 View Page This variety is called Blue Berry. Best to put them into your mouth to avoid tomato guts all over the place. Very tasty   Tuesday, September 13 View Page Pineapple. Grow to a decent size and are very tasty.   Tuesday, September 13 View Page Photo for that last entry   Tuesday, September 13 View Page Glass Gem corn. tallest including tassle is about 11 ft. , give or take a bit   Tuesday, September 13 View Page I think I gave my cabbage too much nitrogen. Actually it is Walking stick cabbage or Jersey kale. Used to make canes and apparently can be used as lumber. Takes about 3 years to fully mature but probably will not over winter here. would be good for anybody that likes to make things. It is edible   Tuesday, September 13 View Page This pretty pepper is called Chocolate Skunk. Do not be fooled by it.   Tuesday, September 13 View Page This is a newer variety called Genghis Khan. Either a skunk or a raccoon decided to try it.   Tuesday, September 13 View Page As you can see, whatever bit it did not like them and probably will avoid them from now on. Wonder how long before the mouth cooled down.   Tuesday, September 13 View Page This is still growing and if i can get it to 400 I will be happy. the others on the plant were much better shaped but just rotted. Might have white fungus in the soil and from what I have read it gets in through the blossom end or tears in the skin.Last 2 years have had excellent plants but pumpkins just rot. Can stay in soil for 5 years. Now the thing with this pumpkin is it is over 40 dap and is on a male sterile plant but everything took. Did not even begin to look after the plants or soil properly as I was just wanting to see if I could get anything to the end.. And congratulations Subs on your sunflower win   Wednesday, September 21 View Page Saturday is not looking good (Fiona). But it has already been downgraded 7 mph so only 90 more to go. All the leaves are still on the trees which is not good. The original wind direction was NW but North is still pretty good. Southish is the worst for me . Where is the cold Atlantic waters when you need them.   Monday, October 10 View Page These trees were on the other side of my neighbors property and was blocking my sun from the west. Some fell onto the house next to my neighbor.   Monday, October 10 View Page Another shot of those trees.   Monday, October 10 View Page This metal sign came from a park , went over 2 streets and from the direction of where that sign was in the park probably had to come over that house. I cannotthink of any other wayunless it somehow curved arount it   Monday, October 10 View Page My garden is there but since I had the vines pulled and drying out to remove them it eas not too bad except for the extra mess to clean up . There was a lot of some branches and twigs.   Monday, October 10 View Page My trellis where my glass gem corn and eating tomatoes were did not hold up well to that tree   Monday, October 10 View Page As you can see my corn is not as tall as it was but there was still a few tomatoes left. My 2 small pumpkins that were there somehow got missed and house did not get damaged   Monday, October 10 View Page Twin rainbow the following day. Fiona caused a lot of damage in this area. I woke about 2 A.M. for nature , looked out and seen hardly any damage. When I woke up at 7 the landscape had changed. I am normally a light sleeper and have slept through the 3 hurricanes we have had in about the last 10 years. We always only got the tail end of hurricanes, not the full fledged storm so something has changed. Had no power for 13 days and only cold water for bird baths. This was a beast of a different nature from what we have ever experienced in this area and will have to be better prepared if this is the new reality. Juan and Dorian were nothing like this. Can only imagine what Florida went through with Ian if it was this bad with Fiona. 95% of customers in my province lost power and some will be until this Friday.   Tuesday, December 6 View Page ghost pirate   Tuesday, December 6 View Page fright night   Tuesday, December 6 View Page jack the ripper   Tuesday, December 6 View Page Karen Cooper from the night of the living dead   Tuesday, December 6 View Page Cemetary Zombie from the night of the living dead   Tuesday, December 6 View Page Billy Butcherson   Tuesday, December 6 View Page the mummy   Tuesday, December 6 View Page worry wart   Tuesday, December 6 View Page the headless horseman   Thursday, December 8 View Page Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter   Thursday, December 8 View Page Mad-Eye Moody from Harry Potter   Thursday, December 8 View Page professor MoGonnagoll from Harry Potter   Thursday, December 8 View Page Tyrion Lannister from Harry potter   Thursday, December 8 View Page Cersei Lannister from Harry Potter. Jaime Lannister rotted by so I could not carve him   Thursday, December 8 View Page Severus Snape from Harry Potter   Thursday, December 8 View Page Sirius Black from Harry Potter   Thursday, December 8 View Page Harry Potter   Thursday, December 8 View Page Albus Dumbledore from Harry potter. The hermione grainger photo sucked   Thursday, December 8 View Page Brain E. Aaak .   Thursday, December 8 View Page Screech   Thursday, December 8 View Page Dracula. screech and dracula may be simple but they are halloween to me   Thursday, December 8 View Page Had a little video that I edited running in the window. The next few photos are from it.   Thursday, December 8 View Page The message was being splattered onto the window in blood   Thursday, December 8 View Page One of the psychos   Thursday, December 8 View Page another psycho   Thursday, December 8 View Page one of the victims   Thursday, December 8 View Page Another victim. Some people were filming the video on their cell phones. was a little over a minute long.   Thursday, December 8 View Page This is Inferno from HD. My neighbor brought in the skeleton so we complimented each other. 12 foot toys attract attention. Because the weather was so nice I was able to get out the other toys that are not meant to get rained on. Lost several pumpkins to rot that I had ready to carve. I had a lunging dog hidden behind my car that activated when people walked by. Caused quite a few screams and jumps.   Friday, December 9 View Page First Christmas Card from 1843 England