Happy Pride!

The parade was long, loud and entertaining. The after events were lousy since they were at government center which doesn't lend itself to lounging and hanging out. I got to go to Haymarket and watch the people hawking produce and fish. I spent $9.5o and bought- 4 packs (1/2 pints?) of raspberries, 2 packs of blackberries, 10 limes, 9 kiwi and 5 heads of garlic! The berries were all eaten before we even hit the T to head home. None of it local or organic, all of it mass produced, but geez was it cheap.

Logan is getting older and is not willing to hold our hand in public so we get separated in the crowds. He doesn't seem to mind but I still worry about losing him. He also doesn't feel the need to sit near us on the T, which is fine. The ride home on the T is always too long and we ended up letting the girls hang on the bars which is going to be a problem the next time we head into town and they want to do it again.

All in all a good day.

Anticipation and hope

The first of the berries are ripe! The kids have thrilled me with their appreciation of these versus the grocery store purchased berries. "These are warm and red all the way through!" And it is very true that they seem to not even be the same berry as those purchased by the pound in little pre-packed containers.

Many more to come!

The blueberry plants look to have the best crop ever (which doesn't really mean much.) The raspberries continue to spread out over the yard. The garden is coming along very nicely- broccoli, cabbage, lettuces, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, swiss chard, beets, kohlrabi, sweet peas, corn, tomatillos, peppers, cukes, beans, summer and winter squashes, gourds and pumpkins. Cool weather crops will come again later. Everything is protected from the bunnies and the deer. Only one chipmunk seems to have access to the strawberries and I fuss with his holes daily.

It looks to be a good year and I'm wondering if perhaps I made a mistake joining a CSA this year. (This wasn't our first choice, but Stearn's wasn't taking "new members" and we didn't belong last year. Back to the waitlist.) Hopefully we'll eat well and not have too much that can't be easily stored in some way.

Warning!

Don't eat the broccoli soup at our house!