Seeds Saved Today

Since they are predicting the first lake-effect (can't believe it!!) storm of the year for tomorrow, I decided to stop procrastinating and go collect the rest of the seeds...

Nigella (more - I'm smitten)
Straw flower
Double Zins
Reg Zins
Cosmos (white)
Cosmos (purple)
Cinnamon Sun/Vanilla Ice mix Sunflowers (they were so cool looking!)
Mammoth Sunflower (roasted a gallon containers worth - kids ate them all already!)
Hosta
Bush Marigold (those suckers were almost 3 foot tall!)
Asarina
Crystal Palace Lobelia
Cleome (purple - bush!)
Some cool tangerine Snaps
Stella
Celosia (they were over 3 foot this year!)
Imps
Delphs
Double Rust Gloriosa Daisy
Lily
Balsam Imps
Broccoli
Black Seeded Simpson
Cali Wonder Pepper

First Real Snow

Well, this is rather depressing. I know I should expect it, but it still stinks when it finally starts to accumulate in earnest.

Other parts of the country are gazing out their windows and spying bright spots of autumn color here and there - I'm glancing out the window and thinking of 'A Christmas Carol'. It always bums me out. Had at least 2" overnight and still coming down.
~sigh~

Black ice and accidents everywhere. I shouldn't be surprised about that either. People forget how to drive on the white crap, so with the first good snowfall that sticks to the road, or the appearance of the damn black ice makes for lots of slipping and sliding and slamming on the brakes. Which, of course, is the totally wrong thing to do. But people forget it's so very different to drive in these conditions. They'll get better as the weather gets worse, but for now, the rollover, ditch plops and fender-bender reports keep rolling in.

The static across the 'weather-know' airways is that we may get slammed pretty good starting the night before Thanksgiving. Man, I hope not! There are way too many people on the roads then.

Watching The Snow Fly & The Blogs Roll By

I could watch for hours. NOT good:

"Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. You can click the image to be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click “show info” to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile information about the blogger who uploaded it."

Damn you blogger...damn you!

And it also serves to remind me that I asked child #4 to please take a pic of a couple caorrots I pulled the other day that were so twisted together they looked as if they were hugging. (my commitment to thinning leaves much to be desired). But did she? Nooooo. Couldn't be bothered. So now they're just withered strips of dull orange that aren't quite garden blog worthy any more. ~sigh~

We've had our first snow. Very depressing. Then again, we've had snow in October some years, so I guess I shouldn't complain. November and December are our cloudiest months of the year around here. I can feel the SAD coming on now. Ugh!

I have SO got to get my butt out there and collect some more calendula to stuff in some kitty litter to dry. They've made it through many freezes and a few bouts with the white crap, but how much more can they take? I'd best get them today - I don't think I'll push the envelope. Strange how it seemed I was drying all these flowers (and the cosmos drieded perfectly with this method!) and when I have them all done and piled together, it doesn't seem like I've done many at all! Maybe I won't have enough for the kissing ball/tree ornaments. I best get crackin'.