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Garden Update – 4/26/22

A late season frost one night did in a few of our grape vines and Jan’s tomato plant gave up the ghost, but, otherwise, our plants be a-blooming . . .

Roses have started coming in

The Flame grape vine has really taken off, so we added a trellis

Concord grape vine is coming along slowly but surely

We’re anxiously awaiting Jan’s veggies

Don Pedro Reservoir – Fleming Meadows

We camped here for four days starting on April 7th.

Our Backyard

Bad First Impression – Former camper’s garbage

Our Site

The Meadow Side View

First time we tried our “cheater”

Very Low Reservoir – click on photo to see full panorama

Turkeys everywhere


Why We Probably Won’t Be Back

Fees, fees, fees

And Then There Were Two

Say hello to the Flame Seedless table grape . . .

Flame on the left, Concord on the right

By the way, we purchased the Flame vine, potting soil, and the half wine barrel at a local store.

The wine barrel was 1/2 what I paid for the other wine barrel that I bought on Amazon. Imagine, inexpensive wine barrels in California. Who would have thought? Duh.

Lots of leaves . . .

The Future

Codorniz Campground @ Eastman Lake

Our first camping trip of the season . . .

Knock on wood – our 21-year-old RV performed flawlessly. The automatic steps even worked.

A 1- to 2-hour trip from Mariposa

Drought? What drought? (However, in 2014 the lake was at 95% capacity.)

Our Campsite

Codorniz reminded us of our first camping days in Wisconsin some 15+ years ago.

These were the days when we’d slip away for weekends or long weekends to camp at Waukesha’s Ottawa Lake or up in Door County, Wisconsin. Great times.

Site 54 – 30A, full hookups

Our first campfire in many years

The Campground

It appears to be a great family campground . . .

For the kids . . .

. . . for the adults

. . . for everyone

The Sights

The Wild Turkeys

They’re everywhere



Parting Shots . . .



Flirt taking me for a walk

Grapes!

Planted this grape vine in a half wine barrel last week . . .

In about 3 years