graduation

Proof that M~ graduated. She was top of her class and had lots of bling to hang around her neck. She's such a wonderful daughter.

Everything is growing

Notice the chicken wire doing its job. Without chicken wire I couldn't have a garden, at least I couldn't have chickens AND a garden. I love this time of year. Lots of fresh peas.

strawberries

It's strawberry time. YUMMMMM. Last year my kids helped me to greatly enlarge the strawberry patch and this year we're reaping the blessings.

so good

I love this time of year. Everything is growing and we're eating out of the garden. Yesterday we had broccoli chicken. Only the broccoli came out of the garden. We've been having chinese cabbage quite a bit. It's starting to bolt, but I'm definitely growing that again. It was easy and prolific and something we eat, what else do you want? The strawberries are ripe and luscious. The kids picked a big bowl of them, but they never made it to the freezer. I'm lucky if anything comes in the house! When I greatly enlarged my strawberry bed last year my goal was to get enough strawberries that some made it into the house. It seems I have succeeded, but just barely. Let's see, the green onions are a daily treat. We have fresh lettuce. The radishes are already done and they were fine. I'll be buying new batteries for the camara so I can show off pictures, right now you'll just have to take my word for it-- the garden is good.

working the market part two

I'm having a glitch on the blog, so I'm writing separate from the pictures. The kids came out to help with working the market and they had fun shopping around while they were there. If you look really hard you can see me in both the pictures.

working the market

I'm tired

Today was busy. Between working the farmer's market and finishing/delivering a big fancy reception cake I'm tired. I am really enjoying being a vendor at the Farmer's Market. I can talk to everyone and tons of people are interested in the soap/lip balms and hand spun yarn. I'm not really selling much of the hand spun yarn but people are totally interested and love to talk about it. I sold out of lip balm today and I just made two dozen tubes. Next week I need to make more. I'm having fun with it. There are so many really nice people there and they love to chit chat. I knew someone out there had to want homemade products and sure enough there are. It's fun to figure out what people are looking for. Last week someone asked for goat's milk soap and I made it and sure enough it was a good seller. This week I need to find gardener's soap and something the battles poison ivy. I found recipes for them. Did I mention this is tons better than substitute teaching?