With winter knocking on our back door, our fall garden is still producing vegetables for the table. We have enjoyed lettuce (romaine and leaf), radishes, and chard.  The combination of vegetables grown turned out to be a good idea.  Once winter arrives it will be interesting to see how long we can still get the fall garden to produce.  My guess is once January rolls around I wouldn't have and abundance of time to spend playing in the current garden.  

I am going to break free from ordering plants from local suppliers next year and order seeds from a catalog online.  I have had tremendous success growing from seed and I hope over the next few years I can learn how to produce my own seeds. For the time being, I will have to purchase the seed.  

The economy kind of hit us were it hurt this year.  Even through the economic crunch we managed to bring another child into the world.  We recently had a stork deliver a beautiful 6pd. 5oz. baby girl on 11-17-08.  She is a delight and a blessing.  This next year we be a year devoted to getting used to having a baby in diapers and many sleepless nights.  We'll keep you posted.