Tuesday 31/10/2017 – Be afraid … be very afraid … it’s Halloween!

Livia and I will be turning in early so she doesn’t yell to be let out…

I don’t like Halloween, but its origins are in ancient natural beliefs about the seasons: it is about the half-way point in autumn (in the Northern hemisphere), between fruitful autumn and bare trees and the spectre of hunger. May Day is a similar mid-point in boreal springtime.

I’m going to a little neighbourhood party tomorrow (the 1st) but it has nothing to do with Halloween.

Squash are very nutritious and one of the Three Sisters (along with beans and maize/corn) that were a mainstay of the diet of many Indigenous peoples in North and Central America). I’ll bake some squash, but not the big carving pumpkins that I find too stringy and unpleasant.

Once I used some granulated chicken droppings (somewhat deodorized) on my tiny city vegetable patch. I think there might have been chicken feathers in the mix as Renzo went mad trying to dig the stuff up.

I have an acorn squash and a red kuri, which is also known as a potimarron in French (meaning a potiron, one of the French names for that type of squash, the other one being citrouille, with a chestnut (marron) taste. They look like small pumpkins, but not as “rigged”. I try to get small ones for one to four servings.

It had turned a bit cool here, but it is fairly sunny and pleasant. Yesterday there were VERY high winds. I think I’d have taken off like the little boy in E.T. if I’d tried to cycle in that! Even walking was challenging.

Hi I’m here but sooooo scared – oooohhh! More later

Hi all, hope your halloween went well if you were celebrating it.
Good grief ! The sun is shining brightly but it has suddenly begun to rain large drops of rain. ❓ 😯 just as well I didn’t put the flea drops on HRH a short time ago. I did manage to pop a worm tablet down her throat while she was still half asleep from her mid morning nap. She wasn’t impressed. 😈
KZ, we had a lawn man in earlier and I was getting him to weedeat/weedwhack around the tyres I grow my zucchini in. I noticed that they each had 3 or 4 skinks sunbathing in them. They moved further under the sidewall area so were safe. My Mum grows mustard greens or lupins in her vegetable garden over winter and has them dig in before they set seeds. The add plenty of nitrogen to the soil.
I cut my first cauliflower this morning, was meant to be ready in the Winter but just didn’t grow enough before the cold set in.
JK, I love the broken can opener pic.

Oops…left over forgot to share yesterday for it was busy as end of month on Halloween:

😉
Spotted on Tues. li’l walk…n’hood Halloween Cats!