This post dedicated to the Strawberry.
Steve and I have been waiting and waiting for the Strawberries to become sweet, red, and juicy. Well we almost waited ourselves out of any strawberries at all! Once we were finally ready to invest at our local stand, EVERY local stand was no longer selling the precious little things. Who knew June was their month and July meant they were movin' out!? Well apparently everyone knew in fact. Everyone, but us.
So we set out on a quest to find the last berries in the universe. We landed at Hoffman Farms who were allowing U Pick if you had the time and patience to peruse the fields. Yay!
We found them :)
We were SO pleased.
We were SO pleased.
Steve-o hard at work.
It may not look like I'm busy, but in reality, I filled my bucket MUCH faster than Steve. We were hoping to be able to find a 1/2 flat for jam. Instead we were able to fill 2 buckets for a full flat and have berries to freeze.
View from the picking position. BeAuTiFuL weather. Gorgeous. Sunny. FINALLY. Warm. Scrumptious Sunny Sunshine.
Perfect morning.
Found a cute stand in the field for my berries to sit upon for their photo op.
Fruits of our labor.
Fast forward 8 hours from the last photo to this of our flats at home. After leaving the fields, I got paged into work (missing out on the sunshine), I wasn't pleased. Steve mowed the lawn, fixed some pipes, worked in the garden... We were tired! But there was jam to be made.
Beautiful berries. Oh how we heart you. Thank you for finding your way to our home. We are happy to have you.
Bailey overseeing the work. Getting underfoot of two tired worker-bees. The sweet pea just likes to be close. She looks so innocent.
Ready for the freezer.
Add, mix, add, stir... Saturday night date, Strawberry jam we shall make.
And the final product. Steve is relieved to not have to face a year without Strawberry jam.
This post makes Strawberry jam seem to be the center of our universe around here. And it was today. And it's the center of this blog post, so I hope you like Strawberry jam too.
Haven't posted in a while. Here's a glimpse of what has kept us busy.
Painting bedroom, which was always a little too green for me, to a fabulous grey. As well as a bathroom too.
Celebrating Mom's birthday on May 29th...
... and Steve's on May 30th. By the way, this was THE most delicious pecan pie ever.
Cuddling with puppy dogs.
Spending the day at the zoo with my mom, sister and Brayden and Hannah.
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