Happenings at the pond

A surprise arrived in a large box last week.  It was a rooster.  Fortunately not a live one and it is the closest this place is going to get to a live one despite Mike's wishes.  Thank you faithful blog reader and friend Della May!  It looks great on the front porch with my fall scarecrow.

Then yesterday we had some visitors.  Hunter and his mom dropped by to go fishing.  His mom tried to convince him that the water was too cold to catch any fish but Hunter was not buying it.  I actually do not think Lynette tried too hard to convince him.  She had been single parent for the weekend as her husband was out of town hunting and I think she was running out of viable ideas to entertain the children all by herself.  

Anyway, her prediction proved true.  This was the first time Hunter did not catch any fish at our pond.  He caught a lot of coon tail grass, fished out trash from the pond and slashed at a lot of weeds on the bank which kept him just as busy.  

We had our first freeze the other night.  That was the end of our pepper plants.  Mike is crushed.  He even admitted to me that he thinks I might have got my money's worth out of our one and only Bonnie Giant Pepper plant.  That is saying a lot as our local grocers sells jalapeno's five for a dollar.    According to our head accountant (Mike), production may have just possibly offset the cost of the plant, grow bag, bags of potting mix and fertilizer the head gardener (me) used.  

Speaking of farming, our farmer gave us the results of our harvest.  Then Mike went over to his parents house and found out the results of their harvest.  For the first time in our history of owning this land, our land out produced Mike's parents land.  We had 66 bushels per acre as versus Mike's parents 59.  Maybe this will be the start of a new streak.