A quiet Cleaning-Day

For where we have been, see http://www.owlcenter.com/
Our 3-week project here at the Outdoor Wilderness Learning Center wound down on Thursday, when we finished a number of “loose ends” and started only small projects that could be finished quickly.  While some of our group trimmed low-hanging tree branches, and some painting was finished up, we joined half of the group in the kitchen to make some 45 to 50 gallons of “Holy Cow” salsa.  Today’s batch was their “medium” level of heat, just one of their 4 recipes.  After mixing, cooking, bottling, labeling, and packing we counted 37 cases of 12 bottles.  See also http://www.owlcenter.com/owl-salsa-and-jellies/

 

We held a potluck dinner at the end of the day and invited the staff to join us.  With hugs and handshakes all around the project officially ended.  We don’t say “goodbye” to each other, but instead say “we will be seeing you again, down the road.”  Janet pulled out before dawn on Friday morning (without incident, which is always a possibility for Janet!).  Two other motorhomes hooked up their tow’d cars and left during the mid-morning. There are now just 2 of us couples left.  We thought about leaving today, but decided to stay here one more night.  We are the only ones planning to travel north, and spring has yet to appear in MN.  Duluth has received 23 inches of snow over the past 3 days, and the granddaughters have had 2 snow days from school this month.

Instead of leaving, we had a lazy breakfast and went into major cleaning mode.  While we’ve been here the trees went from just budding to fully opened leaves.  In the process, they have been dropping LOTS of pollen every day.  When the temperatures were pleasant we had the windows open and wiped some pollen every day. Today we did major vacuuming and dusting.  We feel clean once again.

 

We will be hitting the road tomorrow morning, after all, heading into Arkansas.