Fall Baking

It is fall in Wisconsin and this year's apple crop is berry berry good. It is like the wild flowers and the garden, it was a good year.

These apples are from the woods and we added 1 Granny Smith to each crisp just for firmness.





I don't know what the names of the apples are as I just go thru the woods and try each variety and take home what is firm and tastes good.

We made three of them and froze them for future use - maybe at thanksgiving.

Madison Farmer's Market

We visited the Madison Farmer's Market over the weekend and it was GREAT!
We were there by 7:30 to beat the crowd and dogs and it worked. Everything was displayed very nice.

I, myself, ate my way around the capitol.

If you open up the photo to the right you will see sidewalk graffiti that states McCarthy=Walker. These writings were at all of the corners. Many "recall walker" signs were noticed on cars also.



This is the gang taking a break from the trip around the square. We all had different treats as we worked our way around. How Tom passed up the pies at one stand, none of us have figured out yet.
Lots of flowers and veg tables were bought during our visit and the fresh veg tables were wonderful for lunch later on.

At The Farm

These are just some more pictures of the yard in Wisc.
This first one is of the wild daisy"s that grow in our yard. I think if we let the yard go it would be solid daisy's all summer.





This one is again a picture of the bain berry that we have growing for us.












This is an experiment by Nana in the asparagus garden. She has harvested about 10 pounds of asparagus this year so now she is trying to grow white asparagus.
The plant keeps on growing but without sunlight the plant does not produce chlorophyll and thus turns out to be white asparagus. We wanted to see if it tastes any different.

The 4th of July

On the last blog I described how nice it was out on the freshly stained deck. That was early in the morning.

I never moved from that spot all day. Even though I didn't have any, (heaven forbid), Leinies I did just fine doing nothing but read my book. The book was "Buried Prey".and I finished it.



Nan joined me in the afternoon to read, drink beer, and enjoy cheese, crackers and olives stuffed with jalapeno peppers.

The Rescue Garden

It is 9:00 in the morning on the 4th of July and I am out on our newly stained deck. It is 72 degrees, not a cloud in the sky and we are expecting it to get to 85 today. Once I open the first Leinie's it will be a perfect day in Wisconsin.
As I am sitting here blogging, I am being serenaded by a large bull frog in the pond and by all of the birds that surround us out in the woods.



But I digress, the reason that I am blogging this time is to update what the Rescue Garden is doing at this time.

The top pic is of a Hosta that I always wanted from Nana's garden. It grows to about 3 feet tall and about 3-4 feet wide. But this one was not rescued by me but started by itself 2 years ago. This is the first year for flowers.





The next pic is of the ground cover that we planted about 9-9 years ago and it has really spread out. It is called Lamium.


Last but not least is the Bain Berry plant. This was rescued from the woods and planted close to the garage. There are red and white Bain Berry plants. So this is the best year yet for the plant that I moved 2 years ago.

Hosta La Vista Garden

This is the rescue garden by Jonesie's garage. It is a place where the plants go once Nana wants to get rid of them. I have added two hostas from a garden center.






This year I also added 5 Jack in the Pulpit's. These were found in a clear cut behind the garage and I was told they don't like the sun so I moved them. In with all the other things I have transplanted red and white Bainberries. These are doing very well this year.





The ground cover was started from about 7 small containers and it really has grown. You can abuse it all you want and it still comes back.

Full Woodshed

The woodshed is full for next year. We will be burning poplar, red oak,sugar maple and hickory.
It is time to start on the wood for 2013.