A Week on the Farm – August 3, 2013

     This week has been delightful, the weather is mild during the day and cool at night.  The rain has abated with only the occassional shower.  

     On Wednesday morning, our daughter with her husband and kids, along with one of their friends arrived.  We are really enjoying having our kids and grandkids here.  Their dog is getting along with our dogs fairly well.  There was really nothing scheduled, we picked wild blackberries on Wednesday afternoon and made a batch of 6 half pints of jam.

     Today we all went to the local you pick berry farm and picked nearly a gallon and a half of blackberries and about 3/4 gallon of blueberries.  Daughter and I have spent the better part of the afternoon making 2 batches of blackberry jam and 1 batch of blueberry jam for our pantry and for daughter to loves the blackberry jam, and this was her first time making jam.

It has been a week of pickle making, a couple jars of jalapenos put up, but still no tomatoes. The hens are now laying a fairly consistent 5 eggs a day. Four of the girls still haven’t figured it out, but I am seeing more mature signs from them.