Dinner is Served

I know that all of you have heard of road kill. Well here on the farm in Wisconsin we have House Kill.

Nana and I were just finishing dinner on Monday night and the deer had finally left the pond when we heard a big bang that hit the house. Nana said it was really big bird. I looked and I thought it was a hawk because it was so late that it hit the window.

I went outside and found out it was a grouse. I scooped it up, showed Nana and it was off to the garage to butcher it.

On Monday Nana baked it up and it was fantastic. This is my kind of grouse hunting.

Portland Farmer's Market

This is the first trip to the Farmer's Market for the PDX family this year and the first trip for me in several years.
We ate lots of non-healthy food, smelled the flowers and sampled many different kinds of cheese.








It was such a nice cool fall day we hated to have it end but Emmeline was due to get her first haircut on Sat. morning.

So Evan and I were dropped off at home in time to watch Da Badgers play Mich. State in Madison.

Apples and More Apples

This has been the best year yet for apples that grow wild in the woods on the farm. I recently took a 4 wheeler ride thru the woods and picked these as they were the sweetest of all the trees.

I then had to do something with them so the most obvious thing was an apple pie, but I don't know how to make an apple pie. So I make apple crisp - below. It was and is wonderful.

Nana and I are going to make some up and freeze before baking and try to bake them during Thanksgiving week.

1st Grade

Above, we got to walk Evan to school on his first day.

Below it is a where in the world is Evan?

Swimmer's

The swimming lessons were quite the job each day. As you can see, Evan had to get his goggles on and of course Emme wanted goggles also.