Pickers Delight

This little vacation has started out busy. The three trips to the dentist's office are done. Yea for me! The trip to the Market on Saturday was semi-productive. Brother Enos called me up Saturday morning and asked if I was going. I answered in the affirmative. He said he wanted to go and check it out so we agreed on a meeting place and found each other awhile later. The kids were thrilled to see their Uncle Gooey. We were wandering along the first aisle when I spotted the peaches. A woman had a flat of them and there were still lots there. So I decided, instead of picking them up right away, I'd get them on the way out; save carrying them around, you see. You know where this is going, don't you? Uh-huh. They were completely out when we got back there. I blame it on Enos.

The good news is that I picked up another flat of strawberries and they're all dried and tucked away now. Much to the rugrats' delight.

Sunday I had grand plans to get up, out the door and picking blueberries by 9, when they opened. Well, Paul was out late Saturday and, since he now works six days a week, I figured he deserved to sleep in. I'm good that way. So, I stuck around to play referee for the chilluns. It was also overcast and threatened rain all day. I didn't go. I blame it on Paul. And the weather forecasters.

So far, things don't sound all that busy, do they? Well. I spent three hours weeding the garden on Saturday. Looks lovely...as long as you don't wander too far along. And we've got beans coming out our...we've lots of beans. The kids love picking and delivering them to our neighbours. Of course, that could be because they often get a treat in return. Most recently, it was fudgesicles.

Today, I dried some more sage and oregano and froze lemon balm and basil. And, after supper, I went down and picked two buckets of blueberries. It was much nicer than last time. Cooler. Nice breeze. No mosquitoes. And it took about 2/3 as much time. Perfect. One buckets-worth is in the freezer now and most of the remaining berries will go in tomorrow. Hopefully I can get one more trip in this month and we should be set for a good while.