The sun is shining, I am feeling strong and healthy, but oh boy, I have murder in my heart!The moles are driving me nuts, as thids morning as I inspected all my veggies, as I do every morning, I found my beautiful patti pans lying halfdead and shriveled up, looking a sorry sight indeed. I am really now at the end of my wits, as the peacocks, the chickens, the birds, and all the other wildlife I can control to a certain extent, but the moles are like ghosts, you just never see one. Although with the insecticide granules that I have stuck into their tunnels, One came out, and drowned in my frog pond! It is the first time in all this time that I have actually seen this ghostly little critter, who reeks havock under just about anything with roots! So I got another bottle of this granules, and not wanting to harm the insects and things, I made little sachets with calico, filled it with the horrible smelling granules, then stuck it into the tunnels as far as it would go. This granules smell awful, and it is so potent, that a person just can't breathe it in, and after I had finished, my lungs were actually sore. I had a little mask over my nose, but the smell and the fumes still penetrated! So now, two days later, there is a horrid stench around the house, and just where I had stuck in the poison. They would not have eaten it, but I hoped that the fumes this granules gave off, had killed them dead! Never knew I had such a murderous streak in me!

My computer was off for a few days, Our Government had promised electricity to all, but did not realize that to do that, they had to actually build new power plants! I grew up on a remote farm, where we did not have electricity, and a lot of the outlaying farmers still use generators. But, of course for the votes they would score, the new Government had to promise something, and they promised power to even the most remote places! Now we have a lot of load sharing, and the eletricity goes off at all hours, leaving us in the dark for ages on end. What this will do to our already challenged economy, heavens alone knows, as millions of oil instead of coal is now burned to provide some power! Something somewhere went wrong with the coal! Anyway, I was working on my computer when the power went off, and I did not put it off at the plug, with the result that when the power came back on, it blew something, as the sudden surge was too strong. And I had to pay for all this!

My sun dried tomatoes are stacking up beautifully. Every morning I harvest the ripe ones, cut them in half, and put in the sun. I had put some of the dried ones into a bottle with oil, and some in the freezer to see what worked best, and I must say, they freeze really well.So for this winter I will have plenty of lovely dried tomatoes! I think the freezing works best!