After September’s property disappointment, we have greatly retooled our winter plans - really, all of our plans.

I take the model of perennial plants and even shrubs as the garden’s “backbone” with pockets of annual planting that must be “flipped’ multiple times a year.

We have casually watched the property market in our area for a few years now, but after losing an offer on a 20-acre property, we have been haunting the real estate sites daily.