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Time to break out the frost protection and/or take your last harvest. If it doesn’t frost tonight, it will tomorrow. And there’s a possibility of a hard freeze and snow at that!
I took the opportunity between 40mph wind gusts to run out and do my last harvest of beans and green tomatoes. Wind chill [...] Much like the past 5 months, the weather in the Chicago area has been…shall we say…abnormal. More rain than normal and below average temperatures made for a fabulous growing season for the home gardener. But all good things must come to an end. This growing season has been holding on for much longer than [...] For the past 2 years I’ve been spending roughly $8-$10 a day on lunch. Sometimes less, sometimes more..but that’s about the average. I should know…I was on a budget In conjunction with taking the train (see last post) I’ve started taking my lunch to work instead of buying. I did some notepad calculations [...] For the past 2 years I’ve been commuting from Wheaton to the northern edge of Chicago proper in my 2001 Subaru Outback wagon. My day job recently moved their facilities to downtown Chicago, about 4 blocks from Ogilvie Station. I had been waiting for this move for some time, as it allows me to [...] We spent the last 3 days up in the Lake Geneva area of Wisconsin, just over the border from Illinois. It’s a beautiful 1 1/2 hour drive from Wheaton, IL through some of the best farm country in the nation. (though not the most beautiful, that’s reserved to south west Wisconsin/north west Illinois/north [...] |
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