Notes for December 15, 2009

I picked the last of my carrots on Saturday and I think they are on the menu for tonight.  I was able to pick some nice medium size and small carrots.  I picked them around mid morning and had to chip the frozen earth around them.  The top two inches of the ground was frozen.  I could have waited until the afternoon but there were other things on the schedule.   Did some cleaning later on Saturday which including recycling the pile of last years seed catalogs (why is difficult to part with them?).  I have a few catalogs already for next year and have started a new pile.   We've had some wind storms and the leaves have started to pile up in the usual places.  But they are not posing a threat to my grass or gardens yet.   Saturday afternoon as I went to borrow the extension ladder (to put up the outdoor Christmas lights on the house) from a family member I noticed not one but two red tailed hawks perched in the trees behind my house intently watching the birds at my feeders.  In defiance I shouted to them "Leave the birds alone!  There are plenty of squirrels!"  Then one flew off.  When I returned with the ladder, the other was gone.