I gave in this morning and turned on the heat. No, not the central heat. It wasn't nearly cold enough in the house for that, but the little space heater was just enough to take the chill off the living room.
It sure felt good to sit under a blanket in front of this thing, with hot cup of coffee in my hand.
After it warmed up a bit, I went out back and saw one lonely little hornet hovering around what used to be a busy nest. I almost felt sorry for him. Not sorry enough to not try to kill him, but sorry nonetheless. He kept his distance and I was able to get part of the mess behind the fence...I was going to say cleaned up, but really all I did was toss it over the fence into the back yard.
Still, at least it's on my property now and I can take care of it at my leisure. I did cut up a few of the branches, but I've started feeling all the work I've been doing these last few days, so I just did a little bit of work. Now, I just need to start working on the rest of it. Most of the stuff I'll be able to get with my mini chainsaw or manual loppers, but there are a few bigger pieces I'll have to break out the full size chainsaw to take care of those.
I just hope I can get the thing started, since it's been in storage for so long.
Before I came inside to settle in with some knitting and football, I recorded a new garden vlog, which you can watch here: Garden Vlog. I think I did a little bit better this time, because I got more sleep last night, but I still ended up rambling some. Oh well, maybe I'll eventually get the hang of it. Maybe over the winter, I'll figure out how to edit and make them look a bit more professional, but I'm not sure I want to get into all of that. They're mostly for me anyway, to review what I've done this year and see what i need to do differently in the future.
In the vlog, I mentioned the average first frost date, and do you know I checked five different websites and they gave me five different dates. So I have no idea when our average first frost date is. Usually it's sometime during the first half of November, but what with the Super El Niño and all, I don't know what to expect this year. I'll have to keep checking the forecast. I just hope my second round of tomatoes have time to ripen before it gets here -- or at least grow to full size. Tomatoes will continue to ripen after you pick them, so that's not really much of a worry.
I said I wasn't going to harvest any more cayenne peppers, either because I've got them running out of my ears, but somehow I managed to snap an entire branch off of one of my plants. I didn't want them to go to waste, so I brought the peppers in anyway.
I'll probably put them into a Ziploc and put them in the freezer with the other two Ziplocs I have of peppers. Cody said he and Brennan are probably going to come visit one weekend before Thanksgiving, then spend a quiet Thanksgiving at home, just the two of them. Working retail around the holidays is exhausting, and she wants to rest instead of traveling. I don't blame her, so we're going to have our dinner then, and they'll help me put up the tree as well. I think I'll try to talk Cody into putting up my outside lights, too since he's a bit taller than I am.
All that to say I will give them some of the frozen and pickled peppers to take home with them. In fact, I might go cut the rest of the green peppers before they start turning red so they'll have a nice little bunch of those to use.
Speaking of, I got my squash casserole made and put into the freezer, so that's one more thing I can mark off my list. This is the recipe I use.
For what it's worth, you can use regular chicken broth instead of bouillon if that's what you have handy. And whatever stuffing mix you have, as well. I usually use Stove Top or even the Great Value brand, since those are what I buy.
Tomorrow, I'll make the squash pie, using this recipe.
Only I'll use evaporated milk instead of scalded milk. That's how you know this is a super old recipe. I won't put this one into the freezer! Well, maybe I'll put a few slices in, but I'm going to eat most of it.
And finally, the official Hunter's Moon isn't until tomorrow night, but it sure is big and bright out there this evening.
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