"Today: A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 48."
"Tonight: Areas of frost after midnight. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 28"
good thing i got out and picked peppers and then i went around and picked any lima beans that were left as they make excellent shelled beans when they are still green also. took me about an hour to pick them and then another half hour to shell them out and Ma cooked them up to go along with the rest of supper. yum!
today i cleaned out the peppers so Ma can turn them into stuffed peppers. we already have a bunch in the freezer so some of these will be given away. while i was cleaning the peppers from the leftovers and the ones that weren't quite up to being stuffed i had a large bowl full of cut up peppers. which means i fried them up and had some to go along with my banana and peanut butter for breakfast/brunch.
otherwise, it is life as usual here, picking beans, shelling beans, sorting beans, and when the rain and cold holds off long enough i'm getting stuff done outside to seal up the house from the elements and the mice.
we had an area in the crawlspace entry where the mice could chew at the foam board that insulates the foundation and so over the years they'd been doing that and i kept telling myself to get that all chipped out along the edge and then fill it in with mortar so they couldn't get at it any longer. did that and so it will be nice to have no more chewing going on and the little bits and pieces won't be around any more. i still have to seal up about 50ft of gaps at the bottom of the siding, but that is minor and i think we have some nicer weather coming up next week i can get that started or finished.
the most vexing thing at the moment is that i have a dead mouse in my car and i can't find it. phew! looked all over, found one nest, but no mouse in it. will have to be a warm enough day out before i'll make much progress on that, but i suppose if i don't it will be freeze dried dead mouse eventually... trapped other mice from the car and found entrance they were using. hope this will take care of it for good. cars that sit outside too much can be used by all sorts of critters for homes (wasps, bees, cats, mice, chipmunks, ...) luckily, no skunks, raccoons or possums... yet...
songbird