We Don't Have Garden, But We Have House

First, a disclaimer. It seems the return key, to put a blank line or two between paragraphs, doesn't work anymore. So it's hard to tell where one paragraph ends and the next one begins because they're all run together. I tried adding a bunch of extra spaces at the end of each paragraph, so at least there's some kind of break in between. But that didn't work either. So I'll make the first word of each paragraph in all caps. WE did go back to Fox Park on Fridays for several weeks from the end of June into early August. But the weeds have gotten ahead of us (again) and it's such a pain in the butt to pick while trying to plow through the weeds without tripping on them. Even the paths haven't gotten mowed. Right now, approaching mid-September, the morning glories, or bindweed or whatever they are, have covered most of the tall growing things and their fences in lots of pink and purple flowers. Between the weeds and wacky weather, which has a lot of the plants dying back early, we haven't had much to take that's decent enough to sell. So, needless to say, we haven't been to Fox Park in a few weeks. HOWELL Farm just had their annual Plowing Match on the Saturday before Labor Day. The winner in the Fine Plowing division was Luke Vastine, who has won before with a team of Clydesdales. But this year he had Belgians, for some reason. And Tommy Flowers, from South Carolina, was there with a team of Brabants (European-type Belgians). Neat looking horses. Tommy came in 5th in Fine Plowing. DON'T know whether I posted about this before or not. Back in June or early July, DS and BIL finally ordered their modular house for their property here in TN. Preliminary work on the site began in July - digging basement, setting basement walls, pouring the basement floor, etc. The house was delivered and set on Aug. 28 and 29. Now the carpenters and subs are working on finishing up various parts, like roof, siding, plumbing, electrical hookup, flooring, stone on front of the fireplace, and some support walls and divider walls in the basement. They'll get the keys when they come back in November. BACK to the garden. DH and I have decided not to continue with the market garden next year. Too much work with not enough to show for it. The chickens will go too, probably in the spring. We'll be looking around for someone who wants some laying hens. The girls are starting to molt now and production is way down (5 or 6 eggs a day from 21 hens). So I think we'll go ahead and feed them through the winter, then move them when laying has picked up more.