Garden report, indoors: My Thanksgiving cactus has become a post-Halloween cactus with seven buds that will pop in a day or two. Something bright to dispel the gray days.
I cut the basil that I had in a pot in front of the sliding glass door. It is growing again. Outdoors: The nasturtiums lasted until the extreme temperature drop. The snow peas grew quite high but no blossoms so no crispy greens in November. Next year I will have to plant them earlier. I covered the lettuce and will see if that works.
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I had 80 trick-or-treaters. I put out 86 pieces of wrapped candy on trays on card tables in the driveway. Since no one came to the door, I didn’t see anyone. At 9, I brought in the trays and did the math. The pieces left: two mini Musketeer bars, one mini Snickers bar, one Kiss, and two hotel chocolate bars that are left on pillows.
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Cathy Butterfield of Amherst sent me an email about the next Woman’s Club Zoom meeting Nov. 9 at 1:30 p.m. Mary Beth Ogulewicz, Senior Center Services director, and Patricia Rector, newly appointed chair of the Council on Aging, will discuss “Redefining Women’s Elderhood: The Rising Spiral of Reflection and Action.” The talk will be posted for the public on the Woman’s Club website, amherstwomansclub.org. It’s free. Full disclosure, I am a member of the Woman’s ***
The Friday snow brought back memories of the awful late October storm that decimated trees and left many without power for over a week.
It didn’t help the next day when the power went off twice in Orchard Valley. Eversource did call and say the power would be shut off while crews were working on the lines.
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