Fall is Here

Well, it is almost Fall, September 23rd is the first day of Autumn and fast approachoing. We got up early this morning and headed out about 8AM for the Maple Syrup Museum in Croghan for an all you can eat Pancake and Sausage, apple sause, orange juise and coffee breakfast, we got there and were seated right away and treated to stacks of pancakes, bowls of sausage, and was it ever good!!

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The ride up was nice, the farmers are cutting their corn fields, lots of tractors and trucks out on the road hauling corn silage.

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On the way home we did see some turkey in the fields and lots of canadian geese in the harvested corn fields.

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The wild Grapes are very abundent this year, we used to pick them as kids and can remember how they used to turn your hands purple and nothing would wash it off except time.

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The Berries above are plentiful and I cannot remember their name, all I know is you cannot eat them, AND the Birds do'nt eat them!
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We walked the fence line here and cleaned out the Blue Bird Boxes for winter and My Honey helped!

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The Grapes were abundent, these are the Grape Leaves you pick when they are young and green to use to make Mishi.

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Fall is coming, up the street you can see the leaves turning color.

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It was a beautiful day for a walk!! I am a very lucky man, I seldom have to use the walker or cane anymore when walking on uneven ground, but I use it when I have to, it beats falling!

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This is Monument Park in Carthage, this area is where the leaves on the soft maples and the Red Maple change adn is always a popular spot for pictures when fall starts coming in.

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For a better idea click on the above picture to see this process of cutting and splitting and handling fire wood, up here a "Face Cord" of fire wood is 4 feet high, 8 feet long and 12 to 14 inches long, right now a cord of hardwood fire wood sells for about $50.00 and that is not delivered. The tow motor puts the log on the saw and splitter where its cut, split, goes to a conveyor and to a wood pile, most firewood is delivered in dump trucks. The above picture is one pile, there was also 2 more piles of logs bigger than the one shown aboev.

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Above is just one of the many, many corn fields here being cut for either silage for feed or corn for ethanol.

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Don't forget our Veterans!!!