Author: Robin

My goals for today:  Laundry.  Organize my home office to a point that I could actually work at the desk and wouldn’t be embarrassed to put a camera in there.  Stay tuned!  Steve is clearing the brush out of the woods back to the creek that forms the south border of my property.  What are we going to do with all that additional yard space? 

I don’t know how she managed, but about 3 am Coco hacked up a wad of grass the size and shape of a small cucumber.  There was a fox in my front yard this morning.  According to the University of Illinois Extension, we can freeze the tomatoes!  The sound of generators has given way to the sound of chainsaws in my neighborhood.

The power went out during the night Friday and has just now been restored.  Ugh.  I was nervous about the contents of my freezers as there was a puddle in front of them this morning, but the meat remains frozen solid, so no harm done.

We took Avery to the Carver County Fair.  Roamed the animal barns.  Avery rode a pony all by herself!  After a typical fair dinner of corn dog and milkshake, we stopped to visit Bob for a while.

Two of Steve’s sisters, his niece and nephew joined us for dinner.  We had the paddle boat, canoe and kayak all out for a bit.

A quick stop at Caribou.  Joel and Jean joined us for golf.  We did the Lakeview Front 9.  Somehow I managed a score of 64!  I’m now up two quarters!!  After golf we enjoyed cucumber/tomato crackers and a glass of wine on the deck.  No one leaves here without having consumed cucumbers and tomatoes!