REALLY.......It's not entirely my fault!!
I have been trying to update this darn blog now for a week or two....for some reason it has been completely refusing to let me load any pictures....and well, a blog with no pictures.....is hardly worth updating...But, looks like tonite is my lucky nite (or maybe yours)
So, what have I been doing???? I have been in "squirrel-ing" away my bounty from the summer. There are a couple of good things about this...and keep this in mind when you look at my pictures and think I have completely lost my marbles. Good thing #1: If the economy continues to go down the toilet as it has for the last couple of months, I want you all to know you are welcome to come to my house for food. I am very confident I have managed to put away enough food for a great portion of cedar county at the least. Good thing #2: This Christmas I am promising some pretty good treats to be made with the goodness from my garden.....and the incredible amount of crawling around on my hands and knees picking up hickory nuts in the timber. I don't know what has happened to me but the hickory nut thing did kind of go to my head. I know for a fact when I was back out there again Sunday (It was such a beautiful sunny warm day) I could feel at least two squirrels in the tree above me flinging nut hulls at my head. I didn't let it intimadate me one bit...Besides I had Millie along for protection. I brough back another half of a 5 gallon bucket of nuts. The way I have it figured I will be cracking hickory nuts well into February or March of next year.....yeah, so what's wrong with that!!
So, here is what I have put away for when the cold nasty wind blows, the snow is 4 feet out the back door and ice is hanging from the high lines...... Lets, see....Strawberries, Peaches, Cherries, Tomatoes, pickles, Tomatoe stew,Apple Crisp, Apple pie, Apple sauce, Green Beans, Yellow Beans......Oh and......HICKORY NUTS!!!! Yessiree.....hickory nuts!!! Lots and Lots of hickory nuts!!! Do you suppose the squirrels around here are facing a record cruel winter.....I think I may of stolen most of their supplies!! Oh well, screw em....I am after all the superior species!!
Until next time.....MOM
This is a few of the jars of Hickory Nuts I have frozen
Shelves in my freezer of Strawberries, Cherries, Peaches.......
This is my most favorite hickory nut tree......Now can you blame me for spending time out here...its just beautiful!!
Apple Storage....Please help me use these up this winter....Yes, I did actually buy another refrigerator for the basement for the apples...I think I have a mental problem....
Very serious reading going on here...note the pig tails...how cute!
Grandpa, Daddy and Millie entertaining little Ellie with the wagon.
Scientific studies of adolescent learning has shown that reading with you toes pointed upward increases comprehension!!! 
This is our mother....snitching hickory nuts from the cake. I think she gave it a seal of approval after the first slice.
