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Happy Fall Y'all

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October is typically one of our Ram Fam's busiest months of the year and this year was no exception.  While Chris and I were busy tending to the final garden crops of the season, we also celebrated three October (and three September) birthdays, our wedding anniversary, and treated a HUGE Halloween crowd of trick-or-treaters at month's end.  In addition, this month, there was a lovely party to shower gifts upon the new Ram Fam parents-to-be! Final crops from the garden A second planting of green beans for fall harvest was picked and we also dug-up the potatoes.  It was a second year for growing white potatoes (from saved sprouted potatoes of the 2021 harvest) and our first year to grow red potatoes from purchased sprouts.  The white's didn't do as well as the reds after planting approximate 10x more whites than reds.  We were hoping for an overall harvest of around 100 pounds of potatoes (according to planting estimates), but harvested about 30 pounds instead.  We absolu