Thanksgiving

These are some pics of Thanksgiving 2011. This year we had 14 people in the house and that is a lot for us as we are use to being here by ourselves.










It was good food, good company and good coversation during the holiday weekend.












It is always a busy time but it is a great feeling when everyone acknowledges all of our efforts and the efforts by everyone at Thanksgiving time.

Thanksgiving Activities

Here are a few of the activities that took place during the week of Thanksgiving.




The crossbow was a big hit with everyone as well as the BB gun.






Emmeline and Nana had their priorities straight during the week.

















Dead Eye Evan with the crossbow. He was always right on target and safety was the number one priority.

He was also deadly with the BB gun. Poor Buckey, he will never be he same after this year.

Catch Up Please

Okay, so fast forward to Jonesie's bday. It was wonderful being surrounded by people I love so much.






























And let me tell you, I raked in the gifts that evening.

Poor Buckey

Poor Bucky.
Two years ago Bucky was attacked by either birds or a coyote and he lost his neck, well there was a big hole in his neck.

He has survived winter storm and me shooting at him all fall.




Now as you can see he has been attacked again. He is just like the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz. A piece here and another piece there, it is just him all over.
We have come with possibilities: a coyote, a bear, a mad neighbor but most likely it was another buck in the area. It is getting close to breeding season and they get quite territorial.
I found all the pieces and put him back together again.

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.