FAITHFULNESS

We moved from our country home 7 years ago; where I had chickens and a large garden.

We moved onto a town lot - my husband only shared the home with me for 18 months before he graduated to Heaven in December 2018. From June 2017 to August 2018, Bob designed and built me 13 garden boxes for a full-size garden area on our lot – I am faithfully using them as he intended me to.

Things are just now starting to ripen here in the PNW - my gleanings are small so far because the skies have been heavy with cloud overcast; but in a few weeks I won't have enough daylight hours to gather it all in …

I've also gleaned radishes, parsnips (overwintered), gourmet lettuces, nasturtium leaves/flowers (for salads), peas, beans, Chinese cabbage, marjoram, turnips, and rutabagas.

The vegetables and herbs I grow will see me through the year - from season to season; and friends that hunt give me a portion of their hunting gains. So, this widow is doing okay.

Elohim is faithful 😁

Radish Greens and roots chopped & frozen for winter soups.

Sunshades made for the lettuces using plate racks & clothes pins from the dollar store, and newspaper pieces clipped to the racks.

I’m happy with my little dwarf blueberry bushes.

From my hanging basket tomato plant - not a lot at a time; but enough for a widow's Supper Salad.

This little guy busy in my Onion bed cracked me up - he literally grabbed the viola petals with his front legs and pulled himself head-first into the flower.

I am severely allergic to bee stings, so I was very careful around him - he's cute, but deadly to me.

Not happy to see this - I hope I do not have a resident rat in my planter box …

A baby eggplant - this is a dwarf Patio Eggplant plant, so none of the eggplants ever get any bigger than a hen's egg.

Another busy bee gong at the Butterfly Bush - as long as the bees stay away from me, they can hang around: I value my life, and these little guys pack a wallop of a lethal dose of venom in their stings.

1 sting from this busy bee, and I'll be going into severe swelling, and respiratory distress with a heart attack picking up speed - not fun to experience.

This garden season, I planted vegetables "container size" ... but, you get what you pay for: SMALL. I think next year, I will plant regular sized veggies; so I won't feel like the season has been wasted.

Small "container sized" veggies may be 'cute' for Urban gardens; but they aren't practical for table fare. Full size vegetables will work just as well in my garden boxes.

Lesson learned the hard way …

Dinky cauliflower - hardly worth the effort and space it took to get this far.

Teeny broccoli - about the size of 1 floret of a regular sized broccoli head. I didn't expect the 'container size' veggies to be a literal 'bite size'.

I garden to EAT: not to shallowly brag about with my 'urban' neighbors. Next year I'll do full size plants instead of container sized veggies.

My Patio Apple Trees are doing great this year after the severe pruning they got last year (they had a blight that had to be cut out).

They have set nice full-size apples, as they usually do.

These trees are 15 years old ... and I can get 6 apple pies out of them.

Candy Corn is doing good too ;-) I stake my corn against the high river winds.

Beet greens on the left ... Swiss Chard on the right.

The Lutz Beets are regular sized veggies, and the leaves I harvested are the youngest leaves for maximum flavor.

The Swiss Chard is disappointing - very small and waxy looking - like plastic! WTH; this is supposed to be an 'organic' seed. It looks like plastic. I will not be buying “container sized' vegetables again >:-P

I’m still waiting on a return call from Dick Hannah on Vancouver concerning the windshield replacement I hope to have done s.o.o.n.

I got my windshield broken Friday afternoon, on my way home from a downtown trip.

The claim has been approved by AARP … but Dick Hannah is playing political games, using covid hysteria to get out of doing the work – it’s their product; they NEED TO FAITHFULLY DO THE WORK without any more BS wrangling.

In carport, at home. I hope to hear a good report this week.

Please, Yeshua.