On Thursday, Nell and I hit up the Ness & Montrose gardens. First to get dry beans (another grocery bag) and latter to pull last of the squashes as it was due to freeze this last weekend (and it did pretty much everywhere but the island we live on). Ran across this out in the country on the way to the Ness farm, and had to take a pic of it.
Katrina met us out at the Montrose garden, and showed us an old apple tree out there. We pulled a couple bushels of apples out of it. No idea what kind. honestly, looking at the base of it, it looks like 50 years ago a tree either died or was cut down, and the suckers that grew up from the rootstock are the tree now. It is a tasty and mouth puckeringly sour apple that will be great for apple sauce.
As Bella can attest to.
Friday I took Nell and Claire to the office with me, and then down to my parent’s place. Mostly to play in the wood, and work on deer stands. We spent some time in the stands hoping for squirrels or grouse which walk by regularly when we are deer hunting, but all we had walk up to us was a nice buck. Which was a really cool close encounter. There is a trail cam on the property for the first time this year. We got to see the pics on it that afternoon, and it has me and the girls all sweating with anticipation this year about the hunting which will start in about three weeks.
Lots of different real big bucks moving around. Mostly at night for now, but once doe chasing time is on, we will see them all times of the day.
Other than that, our friend Brennan was out working on deer stands and helping us put up wood for the B&B this winter.
And that was the MEA weekend I spent with my girls. Not much left in the gardens at all. Rutabagas is about the only thing of significance we have yet to pull.