We got a taste of winter this past week. Killing frost on Thursday morning and snow on Saturday morning. Most all of the snow was gone by Sunday afternoon. We still have plenty of leaves on the trees, many of them are just now at their color peak. Oak leaves will be the last to fall and are still green.
Picked wild grapes on Friday afternoon with my sister and her friend who were visiting from Iowa. In total we must have had about 8 gallons with the stems and leaves in the pails. We will be making wild grape jelly during the next few days. Wild grapes are about the size of pea and have a seed and are very intense in flavor and will need plenty of sugar. We find the wild grapes right along the lake shore or along ditches where can get plenty of sunlight. The wild grape vines trellis on small trees and shrubs with many up so high that we need to pull the vines down to get to the grapes.
Put my boat away for the winter with the help of a neighbor. I have two garages that get filled up with two cars, pickup, boat, two lawnmowers and a four-wheeler plus other possessions that we seemed to need.
Saw my first flock of Bluebills (Scaups) ducks that the winds blew down from up north. The bigger lakes in our area like Leech attract these speedy ducks that fly real fast just above the water with a whistling sound.
Nice to have high speed telephone connectivity at Oak Point so that I can watch all the sports activity from the Vikings, Twins and Gophers out in the wilderness by Leech Lake.
Picked wild grapes on Friday afternoon with my sister and her friend who were visiting from Iowa. In total we must have had about 8 gallons with the stems and leaves in the pails. We will be making wild grape jelly during the next few days. Wild grapes are about the size of pea and have a seed and are very intense in flavor and will need plenty of sugar. We find the wild grapes right along the lake shore or along ditches where can get plenty of sunlight. The wild grape vines trellis on small trees and shrubs with many up so high that we need to pull the vines down to get to the grapes.
Put my boat away for the winter with the help of a neighbor. I have two garages that get filled up with two cars, pickup, boat, two lawnmowers and a four-wheeler plus other possessions that we seemed to need.
Saw my first flock of Bluebills (Scaups) ducks that the winds blew down from up north. The bigger lakes in our area like Leech attract these speedy ducks that fly real fast just above the water with a whistling sound.
Nice to have high speed telephone connectivity at Oak Point so that I can watch all the sports activity from the Vikings, Twins and Gophers out in the wilderness by Leech Lake.
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