Kia ora and greetings to one and all as we approach the crazy season!
After four straight storms and then the one two nights later to beat all of them--I guess some might call it wind-ing (read very stiff breezes!) down. And the rain that followed! So our local river,the Rogue, swelled to more than fill its banks again...
During the last storm, we had even more sizeable flooding on our local rivers; besides some cracks forming in our highway which weren't too encouraging. One of the things that people don't get is just how big the winds get here--for sure, gusts measuring 100kmph (60+mph). No, the weather is not boring on the south Oregon coast!
But enough about all the weather. It is the time of the year that our garden is almost at rest. Our brassicas are still growing, a few tomatoes are hanging on (dead stalks, of course!), the potatoes which have slowly been dying back and waiting to be discovered underground (loads of them, we hope), and the fava cover crop just poked its (many) heads above the soil--hopefully not in sight of the herd of a dozen elk that wandered thru last week (Sorry, pictures are on Brent's camara.). They must have been quite curious as to the plants all growing on the other side of the wire. HOPEFULLY, as it is 'deer' fencing, they won't get curiousER!
This may be my last missive of the OLD year, and I so look forward to 21 or 22 December, when the days will once again lengthen. And of course, by mid-February, that means that when we get sun, the solar panels will once again be getting jazzed-up and the first seedlings will be bursting above the soil--in my new cold frames--yet to be created.
I wish the best to you over the holiday seasons, in whatever hemishpere you find yourself at present, with especially warm thoughts to this season's Wwoofers and to my Kiwi friends; all of you at CCS Disability Action, I think of you often.
Love from Oregon
Scott
