I'm a week behind since last week was busy and the one day I had time available to write my blog, I just wasn't in the writing mood. So I'll post twice today to make up for the gap last week. The cause for not having time last week was I wanted to finish up this year's outdoor painting. So I put in a little extra effort and can now enjoy, until next summer, not needing to go outside and scrape, sand, or paint some exterior piece of wood.
We had a busy weekend two weeks ago. It was our nephew Drew's birthday and Kathy came over from Madison to help him and his girlfriend, Amy, to celebrate. We started the festivities with a stop at our favorite beer garden in Estabrook park. We were joined by our other Milwaukee based nephew and his wife, Chris and Angela. Jo and I enjoyed our usual pretzel with cheese sauce along with some great Hofbrau house beer. Afterwards we came back to our house for a pizza dinner and the obligatory birthday cake and song. Then all the young folks headed out for their evening celebrations while those over 50 sat around and caught up on life.
Sunday morning Kathy joined Jo and I for a hike in Grant Park. We did a portion of the Seven Bridges hike (even though as mentioned before, we have counted way over seven bridges). It was a nice morning to hike through the woods along Lake Michigan and try out our new safari hats. The highlight of the morning was seeing a hummingbird moth (we at first thought we saw a baby hummingbird or some sort of midget hummingbird, but a little searching on the ole internet explained what it was) which I never new existed until this hike. After our hike we joined Drew and Amy for brunch at Café Hollander before everyone heading their separate ways.
On the garden front, we are finally having some of our crops come in. We have enjoyed picking beans for several weeks and now have a healthy supply frozen for our winter meals. Our cucumbers have also started arriving and we canned 2 batches of pickles so far. We have also enjoyed several meals of fresh tomatoes along with sun drying the extras to enjoy on future pizzas and pastas. This year we actually had success with our onions and harvested several that actually look like onions and not just big garlic clove sized bulbs. The yellow squash is starting to ripen up and our acorn squash is looking promising so far. So the good news is there is still hope for our garden and we have harvested enough to make me start dreaming of what to plant next year.
We had a busy weekend two weeks ago. It was our nephew Drew's birthday and Kathy came over from Madison to help him and his girlfriend, Amy, to celebrate. We started the festivities with a stop at our favorite beer garden in Estabrook park. We were joined by our other Milwaukee based nephew and his wife, Chris and Angela. Jo and I enjoyed our usual pretzel with cheese sauce along with some great Hofbrau house beer. Afterwards we came back to our house for a pizza dinner and the obligatory birthday cake and song. Then all the young folks headed out for their evening celebrations while those over 50 sat around and caught up on life.
Sunday morning Kathy joined Jo and I for a hike in Grant Park. We did a portion of the Seven Bridges hike (even though as mentioned before, we have counted way over seven bridges). It was a nice morning to hike through the woods along Lake Michigan and try out our new safari hats. The highlight of the morning was seeing a hummingbird moth (we at first thought we saw a baby hummingbird or some sort of midget hummingbird, but a little searching on the ole internet explained what it was) which I never new existed until this hike. After our hike we joined Drew and Amy for brunch at Café Hollander before everyone heading their separate ways.
On the garden front, we are finally having some of our crops come in. We have enjoyed picking beans for several weeks and now have a healthy supply frozen for our winter meals. Our cucumbers have also started arriving and we canned 2 batches of pickles so far. We have also enjoyed several meals of fresh tomatoes along with sun drying the extras to enjoy on future pizzas and pastas. This year we actually had success with our onions and harvested several that actually look like onions and not just big garlic clove sized bulbs. The yellow squash is starting to ripen up and our acorn squash is looking promising so far. So the good news is there is still hope for our garden and we have harvested enough to make me start dreaming of what to plant next year.
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