Jul. 11, 2008 - What I've been up to

Well, you may have noticed the blog enteries are fewer and farther between this summer.  I'd like to say I'm sorry but I'm not.  I don't mean to be rude but I think when I show you you'll understand.

Here's what we've been busy doing.

 I've been trying to keep up on my garden.

This may not be the greatest looking salad ever but I grew it all in my garden!  A little success....  Some things aren't going well (like the carrots that didn't come up and the snap pea's that something besides us ate!)  Need to get out there as soon as I'm done and pick raspberries...ymmm!

This was strawberry day.  We made up strawberries for shortcake and jam.  We like the freezer kind the best.  Lexie made that all on her own.

This is one of the fun things we discovered a couple years ago, tart cherry picking!  It makes the best jam, cherry pie filling, crisps and much more.  Each year we can never pick enough and it's so gorgeous while we're picking.  This year we had a light rain while picking but it kept us cool.

This picture my dauther took on a recent trip to the butterfly building at our local zoo.  She took tons of pictures that she hopes to make a scrapbook with for fair.

There were also black raspberries but we ate those before I got a picture.  We are lucky enough to have those growing on our property wild.  We got enough for a batch of jam, a pie and a lot to eat with milk and a little sugar (my favorite way!)

So blogging friends I'm sorry if I haven't kept up on your blog, it's nothing personal just my priorities this summer are taking all my time.  I'll be checking in, if sporadically, over the summer.  I hope your taking time too to enjoy!  Stop and smell the roses!

Happy Summer!

Gina

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