Our friend Don took us to the Fayetteville, Arkansas airport to tour a large military plane on display. It was a beautiful sunny, blue sky day. We were suitable impressed with the size of the plane and the seeming competence of the youngsters (compared to us) who fly, maintain and guided us through it.

One of the projects around here is to organize the shop. It’s like trying to herd cats! At least I got one or two drawers of the tool box organized! My OCD is shining through!

One of the 3 drawers of sockets!

Meanwhile, the guys hang around the woodstove doing what guys do best!

The burn pile was started up this afternoon, in anticipation of a few inches of snow tomorrow to dampen it down. It was welcome warmth in the cold northern breeze. The glow of the fire with the backdrop of a colorful sunset caught my eye.

On our Saturday drive we visited two of the many lakes in the area. This one still had a thin layer of ice that held the weight of this flock of geese. Several geese even flew in and made a slippery landing without breaking the ice!

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the road this tree was slowly devouring a metal sign!

I made potato pancakes a few days ago, from potatoes grown in the garden here! Back in April we were here and helped put in the garden, you may remember that post; click here. And here we are 9 months later eating the produce ! I didn’t even have to weed or water! The potato pancakes (recipe and instructions gleaned from my mother-in-law Ruth just last month) were delicious.

An odd shaped spud from the garden.