DH got busy with the leaves yesterday morning, and I joined him after I had cleaned up the kitchen after breakfast. He already had three piles along the street, and was working on more piles in the front yard. Our procedure for leaves is tarps - we take a pile, move it onto the tarp, add more piles if there is room, and then pull the tarp down to the steep slope where we've been depositing them for 20+ years. It helps to stabilize that slope, and it's out of the way. A good location.
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We had a LOT of leaves to rake and it took us several hours to finish things up from what DH had done on Saturday. Fortunately, although it was cool, the weather was perfect - no rain, no snow. Yippee! |
I think it took us about three hours total to get the leaves taken care of. I had to admire the garden while I was outside. My Lantana flower plants are still blooming, they're the only plant we have in the garden that are still giving us color. Such a delight. They won't survive the winter in our cold, but it's a joy to see them still giving us their all this late in the year.
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My Rosemary is actually good in Zones 4-8. We're in what's called "Zone 4 Hardy", yeah ... we get COLD and we get Winter. But we'll keep the pot close to the back patio door and see if it makes it through the winter. I do love my rosemary for cooking. |
The other things that are still growing are my herbs. my Rosemary and my Thyme. It's possible that the Rosemary might winter well if we move the pot to a protected place, so we'll do that. The Thyme won't survive our cold at all, but I'm enjoying the fact that they're still up and growing. I actually got quite a lot of herbs from them over the summer, put them into my dehydrator, and have jars of freshly dried herbs for my cooking. Happy me!
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We usually do a really good reduction on price for our After-Thanksgiving Day two-day sale. We hold it on Friday and Saturday. Then we focus on after Christmas for the next sale event. |
It's two weeks until "Turkey Day" and then we dive into the Holiday season with our after-Thanksgiving Day sale weekend. I still have NO idea what we'll put on sale. I'm thinking maybe the cube shape of our Swarovski crystals, but in the past I've also done a straight percentage off the price of everything in the store. I might just do that for easy. I don't like having to do cash register gymnastics for items on sale vs items not on sale, when I'm super busy with customers. Easy is better (and more accurate). So, I'll bounce things off DH and Chickie and figure out what I want to do. I have newly purchased garland, so I'm bringing my staple gun to the shop so that I can put it up over the next few days. Since this is new garland, it doesn't already have the right lengths together, nor the wires to mount it to the cabinet fronts. I'll be starting from scratch with that aspect of the holiday decorating this year. But, hopefully, I won't have a floor full of sparkly shedding to sweep up after January 1st either.
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