Days to remember when winter comes

These last few days have just been too beautiful for words.  We just want to soak them in and save the memories for the cold days that are bound to come soon.  But we made good use of the day, too.

Our B&B guests left just after noon so there was some laundry and clean-up time after that.  Love that clothesline!  Leann suffered through another Minnesota Vikings game but then went up in the meadow with a friend from town to pick BUCKETS of apples.  I think there will be a few pies and other treats coming from those apples!  Then late this afternoon we finished pulling out all the tomato and the rest of the beans, as well as masses of flower vines from out by our sign.  We finally had a pretty frosty morning a couple days ago, so that signaled the end of our gardens.

And before the sun went down, we took a quick trip down to the Lake and found these beautiful scenes from the slough backwaters.  The picture above looks to the east and below looks to the west...obviously!

This week will be exciting when our old house finally gets moved to its new home just down the road.  Tuesday is the scheduled date with Wednesday as a rain day.

And finally, finally, last night I finished this puzzle!  You might not think by looking at it, but it is the HARDEST, most poorly cut, most frustrating puzzle I have EVER done.  I have done a Jackson Pollock puzzle that wasn't this bad!  The pieces were all basically the same shapes and except for the quilts and browns of the cabin were all a mush of blues and whites!  And even at the end I had one piece that really didn't fit where I put it but there was only one hole left!  I'm passing this one on to some other unsuspecting puzzler.  Any takers?