Autumn

WOW! The leaves are so spectacular up here. I mean, they were nice in Minneapolis too but up here on my 5 acres I am surrounded by Maple, Birch, Oak and Poplar. When the weather is gray and a bit rainy the leaves colors are even more brilliant and stand out even more. My son and I went on a leave walk, he is almost three and I was trying to teach him some basic leaf identification, he mostly just cared about the colors.

A friend of mine gave me some equipment for harvesting sap to make maple syrup. I had to make a spray paint mark on a few of my maples so I can identify them in February or March when its time to tap them. I'm not that good at identifying trees based just on their bark yet. Wisconsin is the second largest maple syrup producer in the country, behind Vermont. Its pretty cool to go to the store and buy syrup from a place two towns away from me or be driving down the road and see signs for syrup for sale.

Our shed came too! My son was super excited to see the truck pull up and unload the shed and move it into place with a forklift.

This thing is almost the size of our house. I unloaded our temporary makeshift shed and loaded this baby up. We still need some major organization time in here to get the tools, garden tools, tree cutting tools, bikes and house storage set up.

This past weekend we took a trip back to Minneapolis for the fall comic book convention. Its pretty small but my husband really enjoys it. We handed out some of our Werepugs mini comics and he bought some other stuff too. I have to say I didn't get that homesick feeling going back like I got when I lived in Connecticut and would come back. Its so peaceful up here that the city seems sort of crazy. I do miss my friends and my job at the co-op. I use to work with some pretty funny and interesting people. Maybe I will feel different come January and I have cabin fever when I'm stuck in a 360 sq. ft. house with -20 degrees ranging outside.