{"id":12670,"date":"2024-10-07T14:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/?p=12670"},"modified":"2024-10-07T14:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:47:42","slug":"falls-here-and-winters-a-comin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanecology.ca\/wp\/2024\/10\/07\/falls-here-and-winters-a-comin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall’s Here and Winter’s A-Comin’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Winter is a coming in
\nAnd Summers\u2019s gone away-O.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(inverted twist on “Hal an Tow” lyrics by Damh the Bard)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s been a year of “megaprojects”, but we are gradually wrapping things up for the winter as the rains begin.\u00a0 Soon, our lives will be turning towards indoor pursuits as the weather becomes increasingly wet and cold.<\/p>\n

Our irrigation system is complete now, and is working wonderfully.\u00a0 What we are ending up with looks something like this<\/a>\u00a0 \u2026 but not nearly so pretty and well-organized (and without the ground cloth underneath everything)!\u00a0 Now that the system is working, I\u2019m finding that it\u2019s soooo much easier to just turn on a valve and water a whole section of garden or orchard in one go.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a couple of automatic timers to install next year which\u00a0 will make the system even more user friendly.<\/p>\n

It certainly has been an incredibly fruitful year on the homestead!\u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s been the weather this year, which has definitely been wetter than the previous three years, or the irrigation system that we put in, but we\u2019ve had a lot of firsts this year:<\/p>\n