1-0, Bears

Those are my beautiful apple trees.  The one on the left has green apples, and the little one on the right has small reddish apples.  Unfortunately, when I went out to pick the apples, and they were GONE.  There are maybe a dozen left, that i can't reach, which i assume is why the bears didn't get them.  There are also several that look like this:

apparently the bears are picky. This is all they left behind.....

This means no home picked apple cider this year, which is too bad because i found out you can rent cider presses from homebrew shops.  Maybe we will buy some apples or cider and make some hard cider anyways as practice, but it wont be quite the same.

 

While i was out with the camera i did take some other pictures of the house.  This is the porch. And here is what the lawn looks like today.  you can compare to the one i posted last time.  Much greener, and as you can see the leaves on some of the trees are starting to fall.

Here is one of my favorite trees.  It is behind the house, and is begging for a tire swing.

Does a Bear Shit in the Woods?

So, Hubby and I just bought our first house, and it is already quite the adventure.  It is in Fall City, which, to clarify, is not actually a city.  It is part of unincorporated King county, has no government, and no real boundaries.  Earlier this week, when it was really windy for the first time this season, a tree fell and blocked the main road out of here.  Turns out this falls under the jurisdiction of the state patrol.

What Fall City does have though is wildlife.  On Wednesday i found a little green frog in my kitchen.  We also have bears.  And it turns out they do not shit in the woods, they prefer my lawn.  Now, i have yet to actaully see one, but i am pretty sure they sneak down in the evening to eat the apples off our trees and then poop.  I plan to go harvest as many apples as possible this week to dissuade them.

This leads me to what i will mostly be posting here.  We have a house that was originally build in 1936 situated on 2 beautiful acres, and i have a bunch of projects planned.  The first project is to get totally moved out of our old rental and unpacked here, but there are a couple other projects that need to happen quickly.

Once i pick all the apples from the two apple trees we inherited,  i will need something to do with them.  I would like to make hard cider, but that will require either a press or a juicer, and plenty of other supplies.  We also have a bunch of leaves that have started to fall, so i need to figure out where to put them.  The plan is to compost them, and use it come spring to plant a garden.  I have yet to decide where to put the compost, or really how to do it, but i will let you know when i do.

For now i will leave you with a picture of the lawn, and a promise of more to come.  This picture was actually taken back in August.  The grass is now all green again, and covered in bear poo.