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We have been given a blessed BONUS of 4 days in a row in the 70’s. It’s just gorgeous outside and exactly what Fall Days should be like!

Beau is catching up on mowing jobs for the neighbors. We got our latest steer calf. Named him ‘Chuck.’ Beau also started staining the deck, so that project is underway.

I am finally done with all of my canning and preserving. I am down to one box of apples, which we will eat fresh, the rest have been juiced and/or made into pies which I froze, apple butter and apple sauce. That Luberty apple is great for sauce. If you cook the apples down with the skins on (though cored) the color is a gorgeous shade of pink.

So, I am cleaning out more garden beds, and we have enough leaves this season (less windy than usual, though breezy today) to use them for mulch over the strawberries, the asparagus and the new bulbs I’m going to plant. Puppies last season dug up a bunch, but they have been forgiven. Both have turned out to be stellar bear hunting dogs. Shasta and Fremont. Good Dogs! WOOF!

Mowing is done for the season - what grass is left will be for Chuck to graze until there is no more.

Bear Season is done, so Beau is home more, now. Yay! They treed 56 black bear from July through mid-October, which was a record. They only had a few tags this season, so they only culled 6 bear, I think, though one was over 500# and most likely a record setter for the season in Wisconsin. Beau got the biggest Back Bear in 2016.

I’ll post some pix later this week of fall-ish things around the farm. And my salad greens are growing great in the greenhouse and outside in a few 5 gallon nursery pots.

I’d better, ‘make hay while the sun shines!’ Later! :)

In the 80s here today and tomorrow! Couldn't sleep, so went outside at 5:00 to view the Orionid meteor shower. I did not need a coat! One meteor, binocular view showed 5 or 6 satellites that transited in front of Orion, 4 or 5 planes in about 25 minuet. It may have peaked but should still be going on for a while.

EarthSky everything-you-need-to-know-orionid-meteor-shower

and:

Spaceweather.com Orionid Meteors

ORIONID METEOR UPDATE: This year's Orionid meteor shower may have been stronger than expected. Early reports to the International Meteor Organization suggest the shower peaked during the early hours of Oct. 22nd with rates as high as 45 meteors per hour, more than double the norm. Earth may have passed through an overdense filament of debris from parent Comet Halley.

Sliding back to earth, going out to do yard work while it is summerlike.