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2021.11.13 -- ALMOST THANKSGIVING

We've been doing a bit of hiking on the local trails this fall. We went out to catch sunset the other weekend...

I was out GPSing for a new address on the 19th last month and had a nice lunch spot...

A friend grew mushrooms this year and gave us a gallon-sized bag full of these jumbos...

On another day out-and-about in the County, I saw an eagle up in a tree...

And coming home from work one day, I found a small buck in the driveway...

We woke up to two inches of snow today...

But, the holiday cacti are already blooming, so I guess it's about time...

We hope you have a nice, quite Thanksgiving!

2021.10.13 -- ANYBODY NEED SOME EGGS?

We've been ripping up the gardens. We keep what's good and give the rest to the chickens. Kelly collected a tub full of squashes...

We still had some tomatoes hanging out and ripening...

And, then, the chickens lay eggs. The bucket in the last picture was from the last two days. There will be a dozen today. Here's more than three dozen that have been washed...

There are eight dozen in the house fridge...

There are four more dozen out in the kennel fridge. If you're keeping track, that's about eighteen dozen eggs. If you want any, come get 'em!

2021.10.10 -- SEEMS LIKE IT'S STILL SUMMER

We are about six inches behind on precipitation for the year. Our pond has pretty much dried up...

The top of the birdhouse to the left is six feet above the ground. The base is about a foot above what little water there currently is. There have been a few years where it was almost under water in the spring.

I found a graham cracker crust sitting around doing nothing, so I turned it into a apple/oatmeal pie...

We've been hiking a lot to see the fall colors. A couple weeks ago we went to see some waterfalls in the County. This is Wren Falls...

Even the waterfalls are suffering due to the drought. Foster Falls is usually a full sheet of water instead of a couple trickles...

This has been the longest summer I've seen here. We still have some flowers around...

Kelly has been taking pictures everywhere we go...

This is the Little Turtle Flowage...

I took a picture of the both of us...

Of course, we've been taking Finlay. Even she gets to wear orange...

She tears up-and-down the trails...

2021.09.19 -- TAP, TAP, TAP... IS THIS THING ON?

I finally got a Starlink satellite dish...

It's not the greatest internet connection, but the download/upload speeds are WAY better than the cell phone we were using the last two years. Updates should be a little more often, now.

How about a tour of the gardens? Top of my list this month are the apple trees...

I have apples on the three older trees, though the middle one only seems to have done one half...

Last spring, after they had flowered, I went through and clipped off baby apples to leave one of each bunch. The apples are nice and large because of that...

I picked a bucket-full today...

That's more than half a bushel. I prob'ly have as many still on the trees. I wrapped most of them in newspaper and put them in the root cellar for storage...

Last year, I was still eating my apples well into the end of winter. Of course, I had to test them out for breakfast. Normally, it's pancakes, but today it was frozen waffles...