I keep thinking one more good day outside will wrap things up for the year, but that last day never comes. There is always something else to do. I have almost finished the vegetable garden, and it looks so nice under a blanket of mulch, and with the paths swept clean. The raspberries still are producing and so I can’t cut them back yet. I don’t follow the proper protocol for pruning them, I am afraid, but they produce well. Instead of cutting back the second-year canes and leaving the first-year ones, I whack them all back to about 6 inches above the ground. I repeat, this is not correct procedure, but it works for me. Next year, there will be a new look along the border of the garden with the parking space and the street. I am letting the old forsythia that was cut down last spring grow back again, the lilac is much healthier after it got some space around it, and I have a new redbud.