Metal Detecting

Well, this morning I decided to break out my metal detector and look around our new digs. Of course I started finding the usual junk, and I mean that literally but pretty soon I found an interesting thing. It was an old axe head. It's pretty rusty and I think it's not too old but old enough to make it an interesting find. So now I'm out ranging around away from the house and I see a fruit on the ground and when I pick it up I see it's a pear. Unknown to both Karen and I, we have a nice pear tree and it has some fruit on it but not too much. So we start looking at the rest of the trees and shrubs and notice the berries and yet another apple tree. The berry bush I finally identified as Black Hawthorn, which is edible and is also used as an herbal treatment for heart conditions. You can make jam and wine out of the berries but they have some large seeds so some straining might be required and I think I'll stick with the berries that are easier to process. If I change my mind though, we certainly have plenty on our property.

So apparently we are coming to the end of a warm stretch of weather so I guess we need to head back to Idaho to finish up the business we still have there. It's nice and warm today but by Sunday we are supposed to be much cooler, to the tune of 30° less than a day or 2 ago. Ya gotta love that good old global warming, I keep hoping we will see some of it soon. Maybe it's in Idaho...