Snowmatoes and Peppers

It's beginning to be a tradition.  A mad dash after work to pick all the tomatoes and peppers still on the vine the night before our first freeze... and for the last two years, that first freeze has been a doozy.

Snow.  In College Station, Texas.  Weird, weirder, weirdest.

We'll probably pull up all our basil plants in the morning and feed them to the chickens; there's really only so much pesto one family needs, and I'm pretty sure it's all gone to seed enough that we won't need to buy new plants next spring.

We're going to emphasize perennials from now on, too.  Rosemary, oregano, thyme, lavender, the standards.  Make it nice and green for December-January-February, when traditionally we look like the Dakota Badlands around here.

Next year, I'd like to give y'all a budding-to-blooming-to-bronzing look at our oak trees, too.  We went from green last week to bronzish-orangish-brown over the weekend, to bare tonight.  Given that we're talking about a variety of truly towering trees, I've simply got to find some way to share it with you.  It's quite a show.

I'll try to give you some pictures of the snow-bound coop tomorrow; assuming the forecast is correct, of course.

Again, just weird.

Happy farming!