"The boss" informed me that I need to include more pictures from our recent vacation. So to keep things running smoothly on this end, here are two more. Hopefully this will appease those people (read Jo) who were clamoring more photos of European cities. I choose to go with tower shots (left is Tallinin, Estonia and the right is Visby, Sweden) since personally I like medieval towers.
Our weekend was busy with family events as the nephew who lives in Milwaukee got married to a very special girl. We had the whole family in town and our house was the gathering point for most of Jo's side of the wedding. It has been a while since the Jo's family had all gathered and the brothers/sisters/nieces/nephews/cousins all got caught up on the latest happenings in each other lives. The actual wedding and reception (held at the local Urban Ecology Center) all went smoothly and everyone seemed to have a good time. Everyone had headed home by Monday so we got a little time to collapse and clean up the house a bit before the work week started.
We continue to enjoy bountiful harvests from our six raised beds. This week we finally got around to harvesting most of the beans along with our shallots and near the last of the tomatoes. The beans were all frozen so we now have about 15 packs of frozen beans to enjoy into the winter. The shallots did really well and we have several pounds of them to use in soups and other dishes. So as long as we don't mind living on pickles and beans we should be good to go if there is a short term food crisis (and the electricity stays on to keep the beans frozen - so we are ready for a small disaster, not a major one). About all that is left now in the garden are a few cucumbers, carrots, and parsnips.
"The boss" informed me that I need to include more pictures from our recent vacation. So to keep things running smoothly on this end, here are two more. Hopefully this will appease those people (read Jo) who were clamoring more photos of European cities. I choose to go with tower shots (left is Tallinin, Estonia and the right is Visby, Sweden) since personally I like medieval towers.
Our weekend was busy with family events as the nephew who lives in Milwaukee got married to a very special girl. We had the whole family in town and our house was the gathering point for most of Jo's side of the wedding. It has been a while since the Jo's family had all gathered and the brothers/sisters/nieces/nephews/cousins all got caught up on the latest happenings in each other lives. The actual wedding and reception (held at the local Urban Ecology Center) all went smoothly and everyone seemed to have a good time. Everyone had headed home by Monday so we got a little time to collapse and clean up the house a bit before the work week started.
We continue to enjoy bountiful harvests from our six raised beds. This week we finally got around to harvesting most of the beans along with our shallots and near the last of the tomatoes. The beans were all frozen so we now have about 15 packs of frozen beans to enjoy into the winter. The shallots did really well and we have several pounds of them to use in soups and other dishes. So as long as we don't mind living on pickles and beans we should be good to go if there is a short term food crisis (and the electricity stays on to keep the beans frozen - so we are ready for a small disaster, not a major one). About all that is left now in the garden are a few cucumbers, carrots, and parsnips.
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