the 10 pm headlamp run (let's skip it this year)

It's October, and the nights here in Central Oregon have that bite to them now. You know the feeling: crisp mornings, chilly evenings, shorter days, and plants that have slowed waaay down. Which means the first frost is coming, whether I'm ready or not. (Usually not. I watch the forecast like a freakin' meteorologist and have STILL ended up in the garden at 10 pm with a headlamp, throwing covers over my tomatoes.) So this year I'm getting ahead of it. I wrote up the seven things I do in early...