Birthday Girl




Although Gi's big 3rd birthday bash isn't till next weekend, we celebrated her official birthday this Saturday with her grandparents. Now she and her sister are off with dad to swim a bit this afternoon. She's been begging to go to the splash park since we were there a few days ago, so that's on the agenda for this week - a late afternoon trip though, since this heat wave is a bit much for the baby...

We had a good, if blisteringly hot, market day and picked up a week's worth of veggies and fruit - this is the time of year when the market is bursting with fruit and I just want to haul it all home in a mad canning frenzy. :) I'm picking up a case of peaches to can from our farmer's market neighbor next week, and we're going to the u-pick blueberry farm this week. We may have missed strawberry season as far as canning goes - though we certainly ate our fair share! - but things are settled enough now that I think I can break out the pressure canner for the season. Not much to harvest this week - we're waiting on the peppers and tomatoes to really boom, which should start next week, but we harvested the last of the spring carrots, more baby beets, our first good cuke harvest, and the last of the spring onions. We planted more winter squash and three kale varieties for fall harvest, though keeping the soil moist and cool enough for germination may be a struggle this week.

On my sewing table this week is a custom harley t-shirt quilt which one of our farmer's market customers ordered. I enjoy doing them (except for the tedium of backing each piece in interfacing!:) and I think I'll start bringing E's t-shirt quilt to market as an example to encourage more custom orders. I'm even thinking about getting us a second tent (we can bring as many tents as we'd like to our market, which is nice) so that I can better display my quilts. We're already overflowing our one canopy, so it will be nice to have the shade for the veggies too. Next endeavor - get myself accepted into some craft shows for the winter/spring and see how my stuff sells there. I know I already missed many of the deadlines, but I'll apply for the ones I can.

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Posted: Sun - July 20, 2008 at 10:54 AM        

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