Travels

Home for Thanksgiving and enjoying the Manitoba fall for a bit. I may have a prize for the first one that figures out who took the punkin pic.
The three blond musketeers. One happy to see us. One out of food. One you can't see. No you can't, she can't see you!
Then we are quickly transported off to Chilliwack for fall trip number 2.
We find the youngens waiting and happy to see us. Shae adopts Granma as her own and Papa gets dibs on Norah.
Kristy and Graham take use hiking and we get to enjoy family and fall at the same time.




the parks and play grounds are always the fun places to be

Back in Michigan starting the travels back to Manitoba
These dunes are at sleeping bear dunes on the lower pt of mi.

If one was young and full of energy this would have a been quite a hike to the bottom. Not sure about going back up. Quite steep

We then had another trip highlight when we found a YOU Pick apple orchard on most wonderfull fall morning. The huge "Honeycrisp" apples loaded on those poor little trees was quite a delight for both of us. We brought home half a trunk full of these critters.
We got to have quite a few picnic stops with the weather cooperating most of the time.

We had good visit with my sister June and her family in Indiana and

It's often a challenge to find good spots to stop for lunch but we did have some good luck on this first day of the journey and hot dogs can be so good.
Then we also need to hike to make sure we stay slim and trim

We got to visit and enjoy a number of different waterfall and hiking parks and walked
many miles with very nice fall colors around us.

Then we do need to make sure we a get a little reward for all the hard work.
This was ordered as a single dip and she did share some with me.
We also came across a nice little coffie house in wi. and got to have a sit down with "DA BETTY". It was also one of those travels that we drove very little interstate over a 2500 mile road trip.

Pumpkins and fall decorations are signals at the Eidse house thats it time to
go have a look around. We started off with a quick trip to Indiana to visit my youngest sister. This took us into mn,wi,mi,il,and in.



We like to take along our picnic basket and grill

With the infusion on some new genetics imported by her son, my mother grew some large watermelon. The largest of her (babies) weighed in at 30lbs, setting a new record for her research farm.

The harvest season went very well with the new paint on the farm. The crops came off on the small side but to have a very dry harvest season sure made the process move along with very little stress on the farmers. There was even time to start training the next generation of combine operators.

Will do a quick recap of the fall of 2011. The garden got very dry by harvest but the fruits are still being enjoyed. Jo did a good job of preparing us for a long cold winter.