The garden took a turn overnight, and is now dead from the freeze.

It's time to start making wood-chip mulch for next spring. I bought a chipper a while back but found that during the gardening season I wasn't inclined to stop everything and run sticks and twigs through it (it isn't very large and it is electric, but it deals with a lot of the size of material I trim around this yard). It has dawned on me that a cool-season activity would be to spend time trimming then chipping the pile of woody branches next to the compost.

This is a week for lots of cooking and eating here in the U.S. I'll try to not generate too many leftovers early in the week so there is room for leftovers from Thursday. That means decluttering the fridge and counter tops so there is room to cook and room to store the finished products.

It sounds like lots of snow and ice and otherwise slithery weather has arrived across much of the U.S. and Canada. Stay safe, everyone!