Strawberries!

Eve and I went strawberry picking this morning. We actually went yesterday morning and discovered the farm wasn’t doing PYO until today. So we bought a quart of strawberries to tide us over and went back again this morning. :) She did great. The field was very child friendly with wide rows and friendly staff. Eve ate while I picked. After awhile she said “Let’s switch sides. I’ll do the picking and you do the eating.” She makes me laugh.

Strawberry Eve

I didn't have my camera in the field, but here we are back at the car.

Guess what we did with all (well, most) of those strawberries?!? We made jam, of course! Yummy delicious strawberry jam. The kids helped with the washing and mashing and played in the kitchen and we all had fun. I love days like this.

Hiding Rosie

First things first, make sure the engines are comfortable in the kitchen. Can you find Rosie?

Floating strawberries

So pretty.

Crushed berries

This smelled so good I wanted to just eat it with a spoon, before adding sugar and boiling!

Kitchen helpers

My little helpers!

Jam jars

Cooling jam jars.

close up

Yummy!

In the gardens

I finally got a chance to do some work in the gardens yesterday. It was a sunny day and I had lots of helpers. It was great. Elizabeth and Alistair were here and Parrish and Orin came to help and we all planted the sunflower house, hung the Topsy Turvy tomato plants, planted a few other tomato plants, and transplanted my two strawberry plants. They were bursting out of their pots and still growing strawberries! Hopefully everything grows happily. It was a happy spirited day and lots of love and laughter went into each and every plant.

Hauling dirt

Strong men hauling dirt! Lex told me later that Orin was doing most of the work :)

Planting

Look, me! Elizabeth took a few pictures for me while we were working hard.

Planting seeds

Putting in the sunflower seeds. Hopefully these kids did a good job with the seeds and we get a great sunflower house this year!

Useful gator

Putting the gator to good use!