They’re calling for another big snowstorm this weekend. Forecasting 12” but they also said that a couple weeks ago and we got 2”. Place your bets! #weather #chicago #snowstorm

We’re halfway through Thanksgiving, who’s got the good stories? Drunk racist uncle? Frozen bird? Forgot to turn oven on? Let’s hear the stories! 🍽️ #thanksgiving

So apparently calendula are rather cold tolerant? We have been warmer than usual winters here but still had some snow and freezing temps. Yet these calendula are still growing and flowering. 🌱 #zone6 #flowers

Prime rib was on sale. So tonight we fancy! Did a rosemary, thyme and garlic rub #cooking 🍽️

If you havent watched “The Beast In Me” yet, you should. If I see Claire Danes is in something, I have to watch it. This did not disappoint. youtu.be/8iNHGKcP0cM?... #netflix #thebeastinme #bingeworthy

Strong geomagnetic storms today and tommorow. High chance of northern lights. 👀 #weather #northernlights #auroraborealis

We could be in for a doozy tonight. 😳 We haven’t gotten a real snowstorm in Chicago for years, or even much snow at all. Crazy to think the winter opener could be a big one. #chicago #weather #snowstorm

So many peppers! First real freeze tomorrow so we’re doin the last garden harvest of the season today. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

These two songs shouldn’t work together, but it’s a banger! youtu.be/CVv8Z4_hsAU?... #music #deadonasunday #mashup

Yes it’s 3 weeks to December and I’m still picking tomatoes. Crazy times. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

It’s short sleeves this week and snow shovels by the weekend. Currently being forecasted that we’ll get 7” of snow sunday/monday 😆 #chicago #Weather

When you go to urgent care cause you woke up with bad pain in your right side and the doctor isn’t sure which side the gallbladder is on, would it be rude to ask for a different doctor? Yikes! #healthcare

I tend to leave one or two carrots in the ground to seed out the next season. I moved a raised bed recently and this carrot trunk abomination was right in the way. 😳 #zone6 🌱 #gardeningfeed

It’s a week to November and we are finally getting some cold nights. But here in the Chicago area I’m still seeing monarch butterflies. In my non butterfly professional opinion, that seems very late for them to still be around here. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Decided to get out of our normal concrete jungle and traffic, and go to a forest preserve for our walk. My girl Jinx was overloaded with new smells and didn’t know where to sniff next. 😆 She also saw deer for the first time. #bordoodle #dog #pets

Using up a bunch of late harvests and fermenting into hot sauce. Tomatillos, garlic, onion, jalapeno, poblano, and chilaca chilis. Then will add cilantro and maybe a bell pepper at the end when I blend. 🌱 🍽️ #zone6 #gardeningfeed #hotsauce #fermenting

I’m definitely growing these chilaca/pasilla peppers again next year. I have never seen a pepper plant put out so many peppers before. They take forever to mature though. They’re plenty hot in the green stage but when they turn brown is the best flavor. 🌱 #zone6. #gardeningfeed #peppers

Today we tuck the music garlic in for its long winter nap. 😴 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Well isn’t this the cutest little red bell pepper I’ve ever seen. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Cleaning up the garden a bit and found this huge radish hiding amongst some weeds. Sneaky! 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Ground up the dried shishitos into paprika and it is such a pretty red. I might have to make some paprikash with it. 🌱 #zone6 🍽️

Today is shishito drying day for some homemade paprika. 🌱 #zone6

It’s almost the middle of October and here I am still harvesting tomatoes. Thats crazy! #zone6 #gardeningfeed 🌱

Have you ever grown indoor cucumbers? I didn’t even know this was a thing until today. I think I’ll try them over the winter. It’ll give me something to do until spring comes. 🌱 #gardeningfeed

We live 12 blocks from the #broadview ICE “camp” and all day everyday for the past 3 weeks, it’s helicopters circling. 2026/28 can’t come soon enough. 🖕 #ice

My dill patch is covered in late season swallowtail caterpillars. Everywhere I look, there’s another. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed #caterpillars

Let my shishitos mature to red. Now I’m going to dry them and turn them into a paprika. I may smoke them first but haven’t decided yet. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Do you cover crop? I may be trying winter wheat this year and curious what you use. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Maybe we’ll get a fall after all. I was afraid we’d go from the high 80s of the last weeks and go straight into snow. I’ve held off on planting my garlic but looks like maybe next week I can get them in the ground. 🌱 #gardeningfeed #zone6

My chilaca (pasilla) pepper plant has been the production winner this season. This is just one branch off the plant. There has to be close to 100 or more peppers on the whole thing. 🌱 #urbangarden #gardeningfeed

Still finding #monarch caterpillars on my milkweed. You better hurry up! Winters coming. #gardeningfeed #urbangarden 🌱

Since the squirrels are messing with the red kuri squash daily now, it’s time to harvest before they take a single bite out of the rest. From one plant we got 15 total squash. Pretty good I’d say. I think I’ll be growing these again next year. 🌱 #urbangarden #gardeningfeed #squash

The most useless garden kitty. While the squirrels naw on my winter squash, this thing just lays there. I want to speak to your manager! 🌱 #kitty #gardeningfeed

Damn you squirrels! 😡 🖕 I guess that means I’m making squash tomorrow. 🌱 #gardeningfeed #urbangarden

If I could stop walking through #spider webs every time I go outside that would be great! Took my dog out and felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. 🕷️ 🕸️

When you get sick, what is your go to food? That something you crave when under the weather. 🍽️ #cooking #food

My shishito plant has been providing like crazy. I really think it should be renamed to the chili roulette plant though, cause you never know what you’re gonna get from one pepper to the next. My mouth is currently on fire like I just ate a habenero. 🥵 🌱 #gardeningfeed #urbanfarming

We’ve entered the wasps all up in your face season. #fall #insects #meme

The #moon looks amazing right now. So big and orange!

I can’t wait any longer. I must know what it tastes like! So I’m roasting one of these red kuri for dinner tonight. This way I’ll be able to tell if they taste much different after curing off the vine for several weeks or not. 🌱 #gardeningfeed #wintersquash 🍽️

Still finding caterpillars on my milkweed. I didn’t capture any this year but it seems like it’s been a good season for monarch caterpillars here. 🌱 #monarch #gardeningfeed

Birria in 9 hours! Who’s comin? 🤓 🍽️ #food #birria

So many kuri squash! 🌱 #gardeningfeed

What do you do when you have some eggs that need to be used up…you make Dutch babies! Also had some leftover strawberries from shortcake so threw those in as well. 🍽️ #breakfast #cooking #dutchbaby

Why are ice cream trucks always the scariest looking “you got a body in that freezer too?” vehicles? #tellmewhy #asksky

Don’t eat the glow shrimp! abcnews.go.com/US/fda-warns... #health #food #walmart #fda

It’s been lightning and thundering for going on 5 hours now. I want to go to bed but can’t until I can get my dog, who’s doesn’t like thunder, to go to the bathroom. 😩 It’s a good thing she’s cute! #fml #bordoodle #dog #pet #weather

I guess it’s storm week. We’ve had 5 storms roll through in the last 24 hours. #illinois #weather

There’s a fuzzy butt party in my squash flower and the bouncer is right by the door checking IDs. 🌱 #insects #gardeningfeed

The stink bug that keeps laying these eggs has so far escaped my multiple daily garden checks. Thankfully my squash is growing 6’ in the air and I can easily see the undersides of all my leaves. 🌱 #gardeningfeed