Hello Friends!! We survived the weekend – did you? Yesterday morning I was reminded that winter is on the way………..it was 36 when Mom and I took our early morning “tour” of the yard. Talk about frosty………I briefly gave some consideration to asking Mom to pick me up and carry me BUTT I didn’t push my luck.
Tomorrow is Teaser Tuesday and I have yet another GUEST TEASER PHOTO for you…………yep – someone sent me a doozy of a photo to use. Not saying who until Thursday’s Tell All but what I can say is you’d best start studying NOW!
Will YOU be ready for me tomorrow???
Yesterday my Mom did something really silly…………the little boys from next door came over and Mom got the deck planters down from the deck and dumped the soil out onto the grass – WHY? Because they were the planters she had her beautiful sweet potato vines planted in – Mom always gets those for the hanging planters on the deck because they are beautiful plants – NOT for the potatoes they product…………but the boys knew there would be potatoes so after the vines were removed, it was time to dig through the soil for ‘taters! They found plenty of them but two of them were WHOPPERS…….one was about five inches long and probably five or six inches around – it was so big it already was popping through the soil in the planter so Mom knew that at least ONE big sweet potato was in there. But when the boys began digging through the pots, they found several that were decent sized – lots of little ones too. The boys think they can make a small sweet potato pie out of them but Mom told them not to be too disappointed if their Mom said “no can do” and made them throw them away. Still it was a lot of fun and I watched from inside the kitchen door because the deck is right out the door. It was rather exciting!!
Sweet potato vines
That was about as exciting as our Sunday got………………….it was quiet……………..which you know I like. We all like QUIET Sundays right?
….zzzzzzzz…..
So will I see you here tomorrow at a random time of Mom’s choosing? HMMM??? Will you be ready to examine the Teaser photo??? Will you be ready to comment first or guess where the photo was taken or will you just have the “I’m gonna get another Greenie” mindset?!?!?!?! C’mon………..you can do it! I know you can!
TWO Spoiled Cats 
Don’t like sweet potatoes? Guess they don’t suit everyone.
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Oh we love them……..BUT these are grown in pots on the deck and they were just grown for the beauty of the vines, not for eating! My Mom and Dad LOVE sweet potatoes and Mom makes sweet potato pie frequently……….
Love, Sammy
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We love sweet potatoes, but Mom hasn’t grown one since she was a teacher. When Mom cooks sweet potatoes, she saves the pointy tips for me! Yum!
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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I’ve never tried a sweet ‘tater “for real” but I’ve had sweet potato baby food and it was pretty nommy!
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That was a nice surprise to find the potatoes in the pot! I have never tried them. Maybe I will ask my mum for a taste next time she cooks them.
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GOOD IDEA! I might ask Mom to cook and mash them up for me…….maybe they’re yummy?! Who knows!!
Love, Sammy
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I know the neighbor boys enjoyed that – your mom always does special things with the people (and kitties!) she loves!
Love, Sundae
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We do love those boys…..they’re fun and ever so smart!!!
Love, Sammy
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that’s my way to get more taters too… I always grab one and plant them somewhere in a flowerpot or I furget it somewhere in the back yard. It’s always a great surprise for my momma…. I’m a good boy, right? I’m ready fur tomorrow, bring on that bavarians in kilts who spend their howl-i-day cruising with a venetian gondola around the bahamas :o)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA on the Teaser……seems to me from the photo Mom showed me for tomorrow there are no gondolas OR kilts in the picture…..then again maybe I didn’t look at it properly! GOOD LUCK!!!!! I think you are the KING OF POTATOES – you hide them on your bed and wait for your parents to find them when they hop into bed at night. HAHAHAHA
Love, Sammy
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Sammy that is a sweet photo of you. That sounds like fun for those boys. Enjoy your week.
Sue B
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Glad you like the photo….it’s one of Mom’s favorites too – it’s the photo on the mousepad that’s in my CAFEPRESS SHOP because Mom loves it so much. Hope you have a fun week too Easy! Do you and Hailey send emails to each other?
Love, Sam
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Holy Smokes, Sammy! This was my first year for planting sweet potato vines and don’t laugh, but I had no idea I might have sweet potatoes out there in the pot. I planted them with heucheras. I will tell CH we have to check them out today! I don’t think we will be eating any if they are there because we blasted that planter with Sevin because the huecheras had spider mites… ick!!! Those little mites made it all around the yard to our junipers and cedars but they bounced back… Yay!
Love your sleepy photo!
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The little girl kitty has not come back… don’t know if that is good or bad. She was so sweet.
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Oh dear…..I hope she’s OK…..maybe she found her way home OR just plain FOUND a home somewhere. You were sweet to give her a good meal on her journey!
Hugs, Sammy
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It’s pretty weird but Mom never thought about it either until the neighbor boys asked about the potatoes! She’s had the vines for three or four years (buys them every year I should say) and NEVER checked the pots for potatoes. Sure enough there were some GOOD SIZED ones in there! We didn’t use any poisons on them so could eat them but why bother – they were pretty funky looking because they’d grown in pretty small deck planters anyway!
Hugs, Sammy
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Mom’s never looked in the pots for sweet potatoes…..she should do that too. Not sure she would do anything with them though!!!
We’re waiting for our Greenie tomorrow!!!
The Florida Furkids
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My Mom never looked either until the neighbor boys asked if there were potatoes in the dirt and sure enough there they were!!!!! Amazing…..Mom has never eaten them but you could if you hadn’t put any kind of weird fertilizer or whatever on them during the year! NEATO!
Love, Sam
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Nothing like a good, quiet Sunday to recharge.
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Indeed……….and now that you have a fireplace, you can have a good, quiet WARM Sunday!!!
Love, Sam
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We had 25 degrees this morning- brrrrr. Can’t wait to see the teaser tomorrow 🙂
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We had 29 and I did not like it ONE BIT!
Love, Sam
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Scotland-one of these years I’ll be right
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I’m proud of you for your “stick-to-it-iveness” !!!
Hugs, Sammy
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Your sweet potato plant is really doing well where it is. I hope Mr. Frost doesn’t get it. Love the fall look at your place.
Tuesday teaser, you know me I am not good at that at all. But I shall visit.
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See you tomorrow for the Teaser ;). The sweet potato vines got REALLY long this year – the end of the deck where they are is up high in the back yard so they were probably ten feet long by the time Mom cut them back this year!
Love, Sammy
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Those plants are really pretty. We might need some of those
Lily & Edward
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They are pretty – and you get ‘taters too!
Love, Sam
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That is one of the best snoozy photos every Sammy!
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It’s Mom’s FAVORITE photo of me……………other than my baby picture! 🙂
Love, Sam
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It sounds like you had a good weekend! It has been getting quite cold here at night lately, too. I miss the fall and spring – here in Colorado, we seem to only have summer and winter. Hope you have a lovely day, dear friend.
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We’re having SUPER COLD here today – this morning it was 29 (eeek) and while it’s actually made it up to almost 40, it’s raining so it’s that DAMP feeling that gets right into your bones! YUCKY!
Love, Sammy
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Sammy we love those sweet potato plants in planters too. BUT OMCs they really have ‘taters on them? Amazing!! Is it raining there? it is raining here we are so tired of it. Mom says she is afraid to stand still for fear of moss growing up her legs
Hugs madi your bfff
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YES Madi – if your Mom digs in the dirt where she’s had the vines planted she will find ‘taters!!!! Amazing isn’t it? It’s raining here but very lightly – we’re supposed to have MORE rain tonight though – probably what you’re having now. YUCK! Mossy legs sound interesting…….HAHAHAHAHA
Love, Sam
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Gosh! I didn’t know sweet potatoes grew in mud in pots! I thought they came from Tescos in polythene bags!! MOL
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Funny isn’t it? Seems wrong………but there they were – growing in the dirt!!!
Hugs, Sammy
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Thiss was a totallee QUIET weekend here an it was luvley!!
Thee workmen are here so mee was onlee out ur 1/2 hour. They not noisy when mee inside…so mee iss goin to nap till they leeve! 😉
Wee can hardlee wait to see thee Teezer Unccle Sammy!
**nose bumpsss** neffkitty Siddhartha Henry xXx
Pee S: Yur ZZZZZ foto iss priceless 😉
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GOOD LUCK tomorrow on the Teaser……..remember it will pop up at an UNKNOWN time!!!!! My Mom adores that photo of me – the mousepad on my “Cafepress Store” is that photo…..Mom has her mouse sitting on it now!
Love, Uncle Sammy
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LadyMum has to go out with Aunty Sheila so mee will try to get he befur shee leevess, butt can not promise….
Need LadyMum to tern thee Pee Cee on Unccle 😉
Mew mew mew……..
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Well remember it might be LATER than she leaves rather than BEFORE…….but no worries – just stop by when you can little one!
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My human does not like sweet potatoes (most other humans think she is nuts), but she thinks the vines are really pretty!
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Sounds silly but my Mom never gave any thought to the fact that if she grew the vines in her planters there WOULD be sweet potatoes – and there were! HAHAHA
Hugs, Sam
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dood…think oh thiz……sizzlin bacon ona vine……yur mom growz it….yeer round 🙂 ♥♥♥
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OH MAN!!!!! That sounds like utter PERFECTION! Bacon on the vine – maybe make some bacon wine?
Love, Sammy
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Mee iss goin sit rite beeside thee Pee Cee tomorrow morning an ‘reemind’ LadyMum it iss Teezer Tuesday…..
Wish mee luck Unccle! 😉
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Good luck Nephew!!!! 😉
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I love those vines too but so not ready for any frost!
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I know………….whether we want them or not – frosts are coming!!!!
Hugs, Sammy
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The mom took the “potatoes” from our sweet potato vines and put them out for the deer and squirrels to eat. The next day, they were gone, so something definitely took them.
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Now that’s a GREAT idea! We still have some “little roots” left – I’ll tell Mom to put them out by the bird/squirrel/deer feeders! Thanks!
Hugs, Sam
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Sleepy Sundays are great and we’ll see you tomorrow at your next torture with a photo. hehe
(((Shoko)))
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Tuesday Torture – hmm…..maybe I should change the name?????? 😉
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36???? Brrrr!
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I know! Ought to be a law against temps like that!
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Peep #1 has been putting garden stuff away for the winter, too. She was pretty busy with a bake sale thingy up until Friday but on Saturday she mowed the front and back yards for the last time and yesterday she limed some stuff and today she limed more stuff and hauled bags of leaves to the back of the yard. Wonder what she’ll do tomorrow. Inquiring minds are gonna wanna know. MOUSES!
Purrs,
Seville
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Your Peep is one busy Peep! This is a busy time of the year – not only are the leaves relentless falling but there’s all sorts of holiday stuff starting up. Peeps get pooped – it’s up to us to keep ’em going Seville!
Hugs, Sammy
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…!!!!
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HAHAHA….were you napping when we went live??? HMM??????
Hugs, Sammy
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Yes, with open eyes!
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 HA!
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OMC Yous pots gwo taters Sammy? How big awe those pots? Mommy luvs taters, not da sweet kind, but da udders. But she didn’t know she kuld be gwoin’ ’em pots. Have a gweat nap and stay warm.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi.
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They were SMALL pots but Mom says if she’d had BIG pots the ‘taters would have been much bigger and MORE of them!
Love, Sam
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MEEOW Dat’s so pawsum Samy. Mommy sez she just might have to twy dat next year.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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My Mom had never thought about it being possible to grow your own ‘taters but sure enough – there they were!!!
Hugs, Sam
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Dat’s so cool Sammy. Mommy twied gwoin’ in da gwound, but da wabbits ate everyfin’ afur mommy kuld get to it. MOL Wascally wabbits. We weally awe gunna twy next year. Taters awe so spensive in da store, and mommy can get full on a tater. She kuld be eatin’ sum. WooHoo
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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Our mom loves sweet potato fines, especially the ones with purple leaves She’s had trouble finding them the last several years. She never even once realized she could actually find potatoes if she dug them up. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth & Calista Jo
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Same here……….until the boys next door asked and Mom had already cut the plants back from frost…..and there they were – POTATOES!!!!!! The purple vines seem to be the most popular ones even though they don’t grow as BIG as the green ones…….at least my Mom’s don’t – BUT the purple ones have such beautiful lavender flowers too! Next year we’re gonna plant them in bigger pots – bet we get bigger potatoes! As long as we don’t use any poisons/bug spray stuff on them we CAN eat them. Strange thought isn’t it?
Hugs, Sam
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