Monday, October 27, 2014

A beautiful fall day

The end of October and it's sunny and mid-60s.  Lucy and I are headed out for our daily walk, over to and around Wirth Lake, about 3 miles total.  She loves going for walks, and jumps up on the back door as soon as she sees me with her leash.  This morning, she was eating the last of the raspberries off the bushes.  Not only did she eat the ones within reach, but would jump up and grab the high canes with her mouth, pull them down, and strip the raspberries off of those also.  Whenever I go out picking the raspberries, she's a step ahead of me trying to eat the ripe ones before I can pick them.  It was a good year for my raspberries.  I had a good crop in August, then another one in late September, and they're still going.  I froze a lot of them; also made some raspberry jam.  This year I made some fantastic currant jelly (lots of work for not much jelly) from my current bushes.  I didn't get very many strawberries, though.  I had my fence put in late June, just when they were starting to ripen, and the workers pretty much destroyed my bed putting in the fence.  I was expecting that to happen, so I ordered new strawberry plants, and replanted the bed for next year.