Thanksgiving eve

Will probably add food pictures later, but here is how we started the day...

And for our overseas viewers.

Bella got to get on the bed since she just had a bath

She was very happy. (That is her happy face).

Another tree encroaching on a building.

Coming down

Ben swinging the axe.

Spooky

Using trimmed branches to build mini dams to slow erosion in big pond drainage creek

Mostly down

Gully is deep

Bajillions of blackbirds

Future lumpia filling

future bread

future deserts

I made venison stew in my pressure cooker. Wow. I know you are not supposed to toot your own horn, but I did good.

Pumpkin pie

Pecan pie

A week of catch-up

Moppy got chilled, shivering non-stop

There are about 50 wild ducks on the pond now

Trees are pretty much done with fall colors

Outside dogs dug a hole in the garlic patch area, just missed the garlic. Blocked them with a cattle panel

Found another gate

Found 2 dozen~ fence posts

Built a saw horse. 2 really, but only one pictured.

Nick decided we should release "Buddy" the flying squirrel. We built a squirrel house.

I put the house in a huge white oak north of the house and put Buddy inside.

The easy way to clean a toilet. We ran our second-hand pressure washer for a couple of hours. House is pretty clean now.

I used a shop vac outside the house to extract the water. I'm guessing about 250 gallons ran thru the house.

Nasty weather.

more deer

trimmed low branches on this oak

started on next years firewood

every outbuilding has at least one tree growing in too close. one down, 8-10 to go