We had a really nice apple crop this time. We've picked somewhere around 25 gallons so far and still have two trees to go. Mrs. Augie has made a couple apple pies, a couple quarts of juice, and is making and freezing pie filling to use later on.
Not much going on in the garden aside from picking and cleaning up. Mrs. Augie picked a 5 gallon bucket full of sweet bell peppers yesterday and left that many if not more still on the plants.
I spent my weekend cleaning out and rebuilding the line fence at the corner of my pond. It was a tangled mess of brush and rusty barbed wire. Corner post rotted off and fell over years ago. I didn't see much point to digging out the old corner post and setting a new one. There won't ever be cattle running against it so no need to stretch wire = no need for a strong corner. The survey iron was still there undisturbed so I just used panels and T-posts to put it back together. With that done I'll be able to complete the finish grade on that end of the pond dam. I brought up a little bit of dirt to smooth it up for now, tossed out some grass seed, mulched it with some junky old first-cut alfalfa hay, and gave it a drink. That will hold it until spring.
