The First Frost
Yesterday morning (October 19) we had our first frost of the season here at Chiot’s Run. This is rather late for us, last year it was in late September. It was much heavier down in the valleys than around our house, but since we live on one of the highest hills, we get frost a few weeks later than the lower lying areas.
This means all the petunias will be withering away soon, as will many of my veggies (I have a few tomatoes still in the garden).
The woolly thyme looked particularly interesting this morning covered in frost.
We had some delicious hot cereal (steel cut oats with cinnamon & maple syrup) for breakfast to celebrate the coming winter. Mr Chiot’s and I are super excited about this coming winter. We’re big fans of cold weather and snow. We don’t partake in any snow/winter sports, but we love to run in the winter. So out coming the running shoes and we will start training for the Turkey Trot, St. Patrick’s Day Race and hopefully the Half Marathon next spring in New Philly. So as most runners are retiring to the treadmill, Mr Chiot’s and I are excitedly bundling up for our snowy runs.
Even though I would like to spend a lot of time running, I still have a lot of garden chores to finish up. So I’ll be spending some frigid days out working in the gardens. Everything need a good layer of mulch and a few plants need some winter tidying. We also need to build a cold frame for those carrots, hopefully that will be happening this week.
What are you looking forward to as the seasons change?
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Spotted by the Side of the Road
Anyone notice anything funny about this sign?
Can you really sell the wildlife with the property?
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World Food Day
Today is world food day, which sort of goes along with yesterday Blog Action Day: Poverty. 
Download this brochure and read up on the challenges facing the world-wide food supply.
If any of you read Michael Pollan’s “Farmer in Chief” article in the NY Times Food Issue you’ll have a good idea of the problems facing the food supply not only in this country but around the world. He also gave some great ideas for solving these problems. Do you think any changes will be made in our food supply in this country? Perhaps we should vote Michael Pollan for president.
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Dear Future Mr President
Head over to Kitchen Gardener’s to read an excerpt from an article Michael Pollan (author of: Botany of Desire, In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma) wrote for the NY Times. I would recommend heading to NY Times and reading the entire article, it’s well worth it. Hopefully it will raise awareness of a few things we don’t talk about much in this country. The food & farming issues would be big in my book in choosing a president, too bad the candidates don’t talk about them.
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It’s Coming
Fall is well on it’s way here in NE Ohio. The leaves are starting to get really pretty. Hopefully we don’t get a big wind storm or rain storm move through. Looks like it’s shaping up to be a beautiful fall, we’re hoping to be able to spend a few days out enjoying it. We were able to visit the Algonquin Mill Festival yesterday, I’ll be posting photos of that tomorrow.
As I write this post it’s 80 outside, not that I’m complaining it will give my last few green tomatoes a few more days to ripen and it gives my carrots & cabbage some more warm weather for growth.
So what do you do to enjoy the changing seasons?
