Frosty the ... leaves?!

Now wouldn't that just be the most infuriating jigsaw puzzle?

I bet Olaf (Dada's car) was tickled to be in the garage last night and not out where the Frost Fairies could get him. The boys were delighted to breathe on the leaves to defrost them this morning while we waited for the bus. Sorry to those of you who are getting tired of seeing sunshine through tree and field across from our house photos. I can't seem to help myself. 

Happy last day of November, everyone! 

Garden stuff

We had TONS of basil this year. It did unbelievably well. We had a frost advisory or warning or watch or whatever, so we hurried out there and chopped as much off to save as we could. They were such hardy little buggers that I think they probably would have been fine, but now they are drying in the garage. Does this actually work? We dunno! Never did it before! Dada used good old American ingenuity though, and rigged up a drying rack out of stuff lying around:

And we picked LOTSA tomatoes that weren't ripe yet. This will give you some scale: