#GRATEFULVIBES - ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE/WEEKLY THOUGHTS - 09 OCT 2023 - 15 OCT 2023

Good morning, Hive-ians! 😊

Oh, my land, we’ve reached the middle of October already, how did that happen? It’s crazy how fast this spring, summer and fall have been flying by. Well, it’s been another busy week on the homestead. We harvested the last of our sweet peppers earlier in the week, peas, some onions, pumpkins, some spicy Gusto Italiano peppers, and the one red-orange Wicked Ghost were all that were left to harvest on Friday before the start of the Sabbath. As of this morning, there are just a few peas and pumpkins left to harvest and then the gardens will be covered and made ready for the icky white stuff to fall, hopefully not for a month, though most likely we’ll see some in the next couple of weeks as we usually have snow on the ground at the end of October. It’s been cold and wet most of this week, so I don’t have many good pictures, my apologies. 😊I put some (clockwise from top left) Jalapenos, Gusto Italianos, Hungarian Wax, two little Wicked Ghost (far left of the lowest tray on the right), a bunch of what we call Christmas Tree peppers (I can’t remember their actual name, but I’ll try to remember to go find the package and add it if I find it,) beside the WG and a couple of peppers that we grew from some spicy peppers my handsome husband bought at the store, but can’t remember the name of, that we experimented with by planting a couple seeds; a successful experiment for sure, as they produced a nice plant loaded with those little peppers. 😊

I harvested the last of the Sunflowers this week too. 😊

I made some oatmeal/carrot and oatmeal/carrot/chocolate chip muffins from our fresh garden carrots on the barbecue this week. 😊

I also made some carrot/raisin bread with our bounty of carrots, one loaf was gone before supper and I hid the other one in the freezer, so it could survive until the next day 😊

Either Floyd or Pansy laid a pretty pink egg this week, we haven’t figure out which, so now we get tiny pink and green eggs to go with our larger beige, brown and white ones. We think that’s very neat and are looking forward to hatching some out early next year. 😊

I love this time of year as it always adds a bit of colour around the homestead. We have been blessed with a very abundant cucurbit (pumpkins/squash/gourds/zucchini) harvest and we’ve been able to cover the whole length of our rock wall with their bright colours and shared them with some friends and family. 😊

There weren’t any pretty colours in our sunsets this week, just greys, so I thought I’d add this shot I took last week. 😊

Well, that was how things have been going for us here. I hope you have all been safe and healthy and have had an amazing week! I’m grateful to God for blessing us with another week to share with you here. 😊 God bless you all. 😊 Have an awesome week everyone! 😊

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(All photos taken by me or for me by my handsome husband on my Huawei P30 Lite or Samsung S20FE5G.) (https://frostyamber.picfair.com is the address for my Picfair site if anyone’s interested in checking it out.)