I'm still eating spaghetti squash picked last September. Most of them are about 2.5-3.0 lbs. Three hill got me about 12-14 squashes. I just cooked one, and got 1.5 lbs of squash out of it. I'm not generally a fan of winter squash, but I do eat the spaghetti variety. I have to say that I think the idea that spaghetti squash can replace pasta doesn't make much sense to me. I tried it with tomato sauce, and it just didn't work. I just eat it as a side dish - no sauces, but maybe herbs/seasonings. In spite of the fact that it kind of looks like spaghetti, it's still a winter squash, and tastes like it.

I wondeerded if you knew him gb... I mentioned that we had a friend in the area but didn't give you name. We didn't see the thyme path or the horses (no peacocks or roosters either :-) but we did meet Sasha (a rescued Golden Retriever). I would have liked to have met the horses but I didn't want to ask; since he was kind enough to take the time to welcome unexpected visitors, I didn't want to interrupt his day too much! We spent some time discussing Christmas ornaments with him - some of his antique ornaments were similar to what my grandparents had on their Christmas trees. I would have loved to see more of the property - definitely a place to take Idyll visitors! We will include Mapleton Organics in a future visit! Now that we have the address from the link you provided, we can program it into the GPS thingy... The GPS was a handy 'toy' to have. It did lead us astray a couple of times - but only because we had input the wrong town in the address (e.g. when we were trying to find that house, we thought it was in Fergus so the GPS kept trying to send us south instead of north! Once we changed the town to Center Wellington, it took us to the right place. It was a fun trip!

Gotcha, thanks for the explanations! I'm thinking I may have a few species trees on my property now. It's actually a very sad thing. We have several trees and plants that I truly love but are in horrible places. It's like whoever planted them back in the 70's new absolutely nothing about trees-- the placement is so bad, it makes me wish we didn't have them at all. If we have them cut down one day, not only will it cost us thousands of dollars but I can't imagine being able to plant anything else anywhere near where they are now-- the roots systems must be incredible. Frustrating, and sad. See that huge conifer on the bottom right? We have two of them, one on each corner of our yard, and you have a hard time seeing cars there sometimes-- the bottom branches have had to be cut a few times (when previous owners were here). Plus the snow has weighed so heavily on some of the branches that they've snapped right off, making big gaping holes right in the middles of the trees. The JM is a beautiful dark dark red color-- to me anyway-- but it's huge and directly in front of our front door! Oh and that's an insanely large silver maple sticking up behind the JM... it's in our backyard and only about 15' away from our house.

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