Sept. 23-29
From a glorious fall day in MO,
We have had a good week. We walked at the Y on Monday a.m., but am afraid we have been rather lazy until we made a second attempt on Thursday - and we didn't do nearly as well as on Monday.
Jim had his year old implant removed on Wednesday and another one put into place. This is a very minor procedure, but with his hip replacement this summer, he took a low level antibiotic type of drug prior and then following the procedure. He is looking forward to showering again on Sunday - am not sure how the healing is doing so may need to wrap his arm in saran wrap first.
Jim joined the old geezers for both breakfasts on Wednesday and I joined the ladies on Thursday - had missed the last couple of Thursdays. Both of us enjoy these outings.
We headed to St. Joseph about 2:30 on Friday to first eat at Whiskey Creek (we love the pulled pork sandwiches) and then headed to the North Shoppes area to make a quick trip to Target. I also went in Borders as the last time we bought at the NKC Borders, they couldn't give us Rewards credit as our e-mail address was supposedly invalid- the week before the Borders at St. Joseph had no problem. Anyway I located a very nice salesgirl and she looked us up - no problem on their computer - so she called the 800 number and hopefully whatever the problem was has now been fixed.
Afterwards we headed north to Savannah to the football game which turned out to be very one-sided - in our favor. Lots of boys were able to play. We had a scout from one of our district teams sitting next to us and he was able to glean some of our strengths, but not all. It is good to win our conference, but it is even better to win on the district level so you can keep playing towards making it to state. We left with about 5 minutes left in the game and managed to avoid the crowds with the accompanying potential for Jim to get hurt.
We have had a full day today. We began moving at about 7:00 a.m. and after throwing on old clothes, making a detour to McDonald's, we were at the Musser homestead a little after 8:00. John has planted five rows of Norton grapes - he says about 1/6 of an acre - and this was the day to pick them. First we had to remove many, many feet of netting as otherwise the birds would have finished off the crop. Then we began the process of picking. The crop was about one/third of last year's as the late spring freeze that we had did a negative number on the yield. The grapes were about shoulder height and relative easy to snip off.
The next process was to put them through a mechanical contraption that removed most of the stems, then the semi-processed grapes were poured through a contraption to the basement - last year they carried the large buckets down, but found the old knees didn't hold up too well. I was rinsing buckets and large plastic baskets after they had been emptied. We then took a break for lunch - sandwiches and chips.
I had not been in the basement area where the actual aging is done and found this interesting. Doug and Dara would have enjoyed being there. We were probably through with the picking and the getting the pulp to the basement about noon - am not sure I would have lasted had the grapes been as plentiful as last year.
Jim made a quick trip home about noon as Dustin was going to do some more sanding this afternoon - ended up doing a couple of hours. Once he had the garage open for Dustin, Jim returned to help do the clean-up.
Jim is now watching football on tv and looking forward to watching the USC game tonight - am thinking it comes on at 7:00.
We don't have a great deal planned for next week other than going to Smithville for a football game on Friday evening. I have a Retired Teacher's meeting at 4:00 on Thursday and hope I can persuade Jim to go along with me.
Be safe.
B.
We have had a good week. We walked at the Y on Monday a.m., but am afraid we have been rather lazy until we made a second attempt on Thursday - and we didn't do nearly as well as on Monday.
Jim had his year old implant removed on Wednesday and another one put into place. This is a very minor procedure, but with his hip replacement this summer, he took a low level antibiotic type of drug prior and then following the procedure. He is looking forward to showering again on Sunday - am not sure how the healing is doing so may need to wrap his arm in saran wrap first.
Jim joined the old geezers for both breakfasts on Wednesday and I joined the ladies on Thursday - had missed the last couple of Thursdays. Both of us enjoy these outings.
We headed to St. Joseph about 2:30 on Friday to first eat at Whiskey Creek (we love the pulled pork sandwiches) and then headed to the North Shoppes area to make a quick trip to Target. I also went in Borders as the last time we bought at the NKC Borders, they couldn't give us Rewards credit as our e-mail address was supposedly invalid- the week before the Borders at St. Joseph had no problem. Anyway I located a very nice salesgirl and she looked us up - no problem on their computer - so she called the 800 number and hopefully whatever the problem was has now been fixed.
Afterwards we headed north to Savannah to the football game which turned out to be very one-sided - in our favor. Lots of boys were able to play. We had a scout from one of our district teams sitting next to us and he was able to glean some of our strengths, but not all. It is good to win our conference, but it is even better to win on the district level so you can keep playing towards making it to state. We left with about 5 minutes left in the game and managed to avoid the crowds with the accompanying potential for Jim to get hurt.
We have had a full day today. We began moving at about 7:00 a.m. and after throwing on old clothes, making a detour to McDonald's, we were at the Musser homestead a little after 8:00. John has planted five rows of Norton grapes - he says about 1/6 of an acre - and this was the day to pick them. First we had to remove many, many feet of netting as otherwise the birds would have finished off the crop. Then we began the process of picking. The crop was about one/third of last year's as the late spring freeze that we had did a negative number on the yield. The grapes were about shoulder height and relative easy to snip off.
The next process was to put them through a mechanical contraption that removed most of the stems, then the semi-processed grapes were poured through a contraption to the basement - last year they carried the large buckets down, but found the old knees didn't hold up too well. I was rinsing buckets and large plastic baskets after they had been emptied. We then took a break for lunch - sandwiches and chips.
I had not been in the basement area where the actual aging is done and found this interesting. Doug and Dara would have enjoyed being there. We were probably through with the picking and the getting the pulp to the basement about noon - am not sure I would have lasted had the grapes been as plentiful as last year.
Jim made a quick trip home about noon as Dustin was going to do some more sanding this afternoon - ended up doing a couple of hours. Once he had the garage open for Dustin, Jim returned to help do the clean-up.
Jim is now watching football on tv and looking forward to watching the USC game tonight - am thinking it comes on at 7:00.
We don't have a great deal planned for next week other than going to Smithville for a football game on Friday evening. I have a Retired Teacher's meeting at 4:00 on Thursday and hope I can persuade Jim to go along with me.
Be safe.
B.
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