One door closes and another opens

"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."

Mark Twain

Still no frost on the pumpkins, in fact the lowest temperature I have seen this fall season has been 38 degrees. This is of course good as I am ripening some vegetables in the garden still and playing the grasshopper a bit longer till the Ant takes over. I finally got caught up on a lot of the Fall projects I was needing to do. General farm maintenance and such, I re-sided the rotting old tractor shed, which should allow me more room in the wood shop this winter. I started painting the well pump house to match the new siding on the tractor shed and soon discovered it was rotting out as well. I decided not to bother with the fixing that problem this year as I think it can wait for better funding and more time next year. I have heard the saying said so many times "Don't let perfection be the enemy of good", I think I like the way that Mr. Twain said it better.  Honestly, some things are better left to sort themselves out and no sense in worrying over the things that can be dealt with at a later date. 

Just a few pics of some stuff I saw as I walked around the garden last night. I still have the greenhouse bulbs out in the can yard waiting for a decent shot of rain, then I'll weed the pots and tuck them into the greenhouse for the winter. So far it looks like that shot of rain is going to start this weekend. 

I rescued a bunch of Sowbread corms from an old abandoned homestead down by the river this summer. Got quite a few nice leaf forms and flowers ranging from white to deep pink.

Colchicum psaridis a greecian species doing the fall thing.

The old illahe homestead viewed from the Rock Garden as we approach the end of October.

Sometime I need to lay out all the historical stuff I know about my place, the Title deed says it was built in 1934, but the way the foundation was added onto, and the fact that there is a photo of the old sunnyside school taken from my front porch in 1914, leads me to believe it was actually a prune drying shed that was added onto. A while back I interviewed a few of the old timers in the neighborhood and learned some great stories about the little community of Sunnyside. In fact, I'm feeling like that will be a good winter project while the bulbs are waiting for the bloom period. I'll blog the story of the community of Sunnyside.

Rain in the forecast, temps in the 50's, it once again feels like a right proper fall in Oregon.

Cheers,
Mark