...10.6...Friday Update...and the Sweet Potato Harvest...

...Posting some comments to blog friends here...Sissie and I thought we had another work-around...but alas...that failed as well...

...to my sweet sissie Karen who blogs from her boat at McCraw Sails...Hey K...glad you made it throught the storm unscathed...looking forward to seeing the new awning and your seat back together...

...to Beth from BLD in MT : Living a Simple Life in This Interconnected World ...Hi Beth...your garden bounty is truly breathtaking...you should be very proud of what you have accomplished there...

...to karen from Pumpkin Sunrise...Hi Karen...I loved your two-tone cardigan...it looks adorable on you...we're looking forward to fall here too...it's been a lot cooler and it's supposed to be really cool this weekend...YAY!

...to Éphée from L'éphémère quotidienneté des repas et autres trucs de magie...Hi Éphée...your faumon looks amazing...and you know how much I love lentils...and your sweet pup is the cutest...

...to Penny from Snap That Penny...Hi Penny...I loved all of your recent Q&As...so fun...

...on the reading front...I've just about finished all of the novels of Agatha Christie...I've recently read:

By the Pricking of My Thumbs 1968
Hallowe'en Party 1969
Passenger to Frankfurt 1970
Nemesis 1971
Elephants Can Remember 1972
Postern of Fate 1973
Curtain 1975

...and I only have two novels left... Sleeping Murder 1976 Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly 2014 - written in 1954 to raise money for a church and later reworked into Dead Man's Folly which I've already read...and then there is a short story by the same name that's in two different collections that I've already read...The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Double Sin and Other Stories...but that one has Miss Marple as the detective...so it will be interesting to see what the differences are...

...so I'll finish those...and then finish the short stories...there are several collections that overlap considerably...and then there are some of her more obscure works...a couple of books of poetry...that are proving really difficult to acquire...and a couple of autobiographies...that I can probably get on inter-library loan...

...what have you been reading lately?

...in the garden...

...our two yellow tomato plants are still faithfully giving us about 5 or 6 tomatoes a day...

...so I moved them away from the fence before the cold weather this weekend...it's not going to freeze but it is going to get down into the 30s...

...and so it's time to harvest the sweet potatoes...

...first I cut off all the green leaves and just threw those over the fence for now...we didn't love the cooked green sweet potato leaves (sadly)...so we probably won't be making those again...

...then we just started dumping out the fabric pots onto a sheet so we could save the dirt...ONE...

...TWO...

...THREE...

...FOUR...

...and FIVE...so that was a pretty good harvest of the Okinawan sweet potatoes...

...I'll clean those 'pots' up too...so we can reuse them...

...and then we dumped out the two big pots...the Japanese purple ones...

...and the regular white ones...

...we were pretty pleased with our harvest...there are some good sized potatoes there...

...and then we set up a curing station in the guest room...

...they need to cure in a high humidity so the starch will turn to sugar and make them sweet...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your weekend...