This is totally cool. It is mid November, we are in Colorado's eastern plains and have now had more than a month of temperatures dipping into mid teens at night. Yet, we are still eating fresh vegetables from the garden outside. Yesterday I dug up some potatoes and today - broccoli, onions, parsley and carrots. It will be pretty At this rate we will make it with fresh veggies at least through Thanksgiving - that would be nothing short of amazing!

Five years ago I identified this as the most likely scenario for the next decade and moved to the wheat country (Colorado Eastern Plains) shortly thereafter. Under every scenario I can imagine for the next decade (short of Socialism), productive wheat farm ground bought to currently yield at least 3% after expenses will be a good and defensive investment.

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We have eight cute little kittens that were born in the chicken house house / greenhouse about six months ago. Their mother was a farm barn cat and she perished before she could teach them how to hunt for mice. We were hoping that they would come around to learning it on their own, but they prefer to come begging us for food, instead.

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