John has been battling a cold for the past couple of days so we decided to skip church this morning as he didn't want to spread his germs around to others.  He is pretty congested and does a lot of sneezing.

We spent a quiet morning just relaxing around the house and watching some of the Sunday news shows.  However, this afternoon warmed up very nicely and the strong winds finally died down.  We had another hard freeze last night that put an end to all of our flowers and garden.  John was feeling a little better, so we decided to dig up the potatoes and carrots as well as pull all the dead plants.  The potatoes turned out good, but the carrots were all soft and rubbery.  Don't know what happened to them, but fortunately we have plenty of carrots still in the freezer from last year.  We also pulled all the dead flowers, emptied the hanging pots, and took in the rain gauges.  

Red Potatoes

 

Onions

 

Russet Potatoes

Everything is out of the garden and now it can get tilled and put to bed for the winter.  While I was outside, I strolled over to the fence line to check the stock tank for the cattle.  Those by the tank posed while I took their picture.

 

Tomorrow is Rachel's 12th birthday, so she sent a text asking us to come up to their place to celebrate.  Sara served a real nice supper, but we didn't stay too long as the guys were heading out to bow hunt and John wasn't feeling quite up to par.  Matt called a little while ago and said he shot a buck tonight.