You always think there is one more piece of peanut

butter candy left...

Well yesterday every time I tried to nap, noise outside my bedroom window woke me. Finally I grew annoyed, grabbed a camera and snuck up on the noisy fiends. They ran into the sun and down the hill, but still if I had brought a shotgun instead of my pocket camera I could have filled a larder.





Last night I threw some rib eye steaks into the broiler. This is me flipping them.



Broiled to medium rare perfection, about a half pound each. Two for dinner last night and the other two for lunch today on toast as a sandwich with home grown tomatoes and lettuce.



So about 20 years ago my wife and I buried some seeds in some thickets, then intentoinally ignored the areas. Let Darwin rule, and what will be will be. Sugar Maple trees, pear trees, Cherry pits, etc. Well the deer ate the cherry tree saplings. Ce la vie. Other stuff thrived.

Today I visited one of the thickets out of curiosity.

LoL, what we planted there has taken over that thicket and the next two or three too. Grapes. Growing wild. Ranging in size from a half inch to 3/4 inch.



I tasted. Definitely not store bought. Kind of a tangy sweet taste. I think I will fill a bucket or can with some and see if the mash up well in my mortar and pistil, then boil them, let it cool, add some sugar and yeast and cover the jar with cheese cloth and let it sit for a month. Should be ready to strain and drink right around Thanksgiving Day. It will go good with the turkey (or venison) I think.



Tonight I am going to drive down to Linden, VA. There is a man there selling used steel 55 gallon drums for $10. My own (used as a burn can for the past 6 years) is just about burned through. Time to get a new one. Maybe I will make an educational video of me shooting some air holes in it tomorrow. :)