I'm a happy gal!! Thanks to the generosity of friends who have access to an endless supply of wineberries, we enjoyed an evening out with friends picking until daylight waned in the shaded woods and came home with plenty of berries to freeze and to make jam tomorrow. And thanks to Alida who stayed up until almost 10pm and was very patient in the berry patch, even if she isn't old enough to snack on them with us.
Well, I went to add photos to this post and was going to put a bunch of garden produce and all the wonderful green goodness we are consuming these days. But instead I have once again picked out a bunch of my favorite pictures of Alida. She is experiencing so many new things these days and continuing to charm us with her smiles and coos/shrieks. She is enjoying playtime in her circle seat, trying out the doorway jumper for the first time and gnawing on her fingers at any opportunity she gets. Can she really be teething so soon? Oh, it is going so quickly!!
We are, however, loving our garden (and our garden fence) too. Right now we are eating a lot of kale and swiss chard and lambs quarter - in bread, pasta, sauteed, etc... And we just enjoyed our first garden potatoes last evening. And Jason and I (Kali is enjoyed a WEEK in WV with Grandma and Grandpa Myers and her cousin Christina) split the first sun gold cherry tomato. There will be plenty more where that came from. While it seems that we didn't get to near as much of the long "project list" during my maternity leave (which is sadly coming to an end at the end of this month) that we might have hoped to get to, we certainly are not needing to do much grocery shopping and our garden has never thrived in the way it is this year, thanks to the many hours Jason has been able to dedicate to it (and the previously mentioned garden fence).
And in case anyone is wondering where we are going to store all the produce, take a look!!! Jason did finish a project this week that had both my mom and me very excited a few days ago - we stocked the newly installed shelves of the root cellar with all my empty canning jars (after removing Jason and Kali from the shelves!!), to be filled in the coming weeks/months. We enjoyed putting the first canned things on the shelves too - the cherries that we processed the day Alida was born and a batch of blueberry jam made a few days before the completion of this project. Tonight I go to bed feeling very wealthy, in so many ways!
I'm a happy gal!! Thanks to the generosity of friends who have access to an endless supply of wineberries, we enjoyed an evening out with friends picking until daylight waned in the shaded woods and came home with plenty of berries to freeze and to make jam tomorrow. And thanks to Alida who stayed up until almost 10pm and was very patient in the berry patch, even if she isn't old enough to snack on them with us.
Well, I went to add photos to this post and was going to put a bunch of garden produce and all the wonderful green goodness we are consuming these days. But instead I have once again picked out a bunch of my favorite pictures of Alida. She is experiencing so many new things these days and continuing to charm us with her smiles and coos/shrieks. She is enjoying playtime in her circle seat, trying out the doorway jumper for the first time and gnawing on her fingers at any opportunity she gets. Can she really be teething so soon? Oh, it is going so quickly!!
We are, however, loving our garden (and our garden fence) too. Right now we are eating a lot of kale and swiss chard and lambs quarter - in bread, pasta, sauteed, etc... And we just enjoyed our first garden potatoes last evening. And Jason and I (Kali is enjoyed a WEEK in WV with Grandma and Grandpa Myers and her cousin Christina) split the first sun gold cherry tomato. There will be plenty more where that came from. While it seems that we didn't get to near as much of the long "project list" during my maternity leave (which is sadly coming to an end at the end of this month) that we might have hoped to get to, we certainly are not needing to do much grocery shopping and our garden has never thrived in the way it is this year, thanks to the many hours Jason has been able to dedicate to it (and the previously mentioned garden fence).
And in case anyone is wondering where we are going to store all the produce, take a look!!! Jason did finish a project this week that had both my mom and me very excited a few days ago - we stocked the newly installed shelves of the root cellar with all my empty canning jars (after removing Jason and Kali from the shelves!!), to be filled in the coming weeks/months. We enjoyed putting the first canned things on the shelves too - the cherries that we processed the day Alida was born and a batch of blueberry jam made a few days before the completion of this project. Tonight I go to bed feeling very wealthy, in so many ways!
My husband, Lloyd and I just split our first sun gold tomato too! Funny how we share a tradition :)
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