Clothesline

As a teenager I declared my intention to never hang clothes on a clothesline. Alas, I am now just another example of how pathetic adulthood can be.

Red

For Joel

I saved you a seat.

Watch

Black cat

Lilies of the ditch

Simplicity

Storytime

Friend

 I'm so glad my Amanda-friend is home to share beans and rice with me.

Rain

Lavender

Blueberry cooking

Easy Blueberry Ice Cream

 Thursday I experimented with several blueberry recipes to post on our website. Here are some of the results.

Blueberry Lemon Iced Tea

Blueberry Vinaigrette

Pink

Old Mission State Park

Our excuse was buying a lug of cherries in northwestern Michigan. Last Friday, Mom, Naomi and I took our last fling before the start of the blueberry season. We immersed ourselves in the Grand Traverse Bay, climbed the Grand Traverse Lighthouse and explored a bike trail near Traverse City. We even managed to buy a few quarts of cherries on our way home.

Mint

Iced tea today, hot tea tomorrow (or maybe a few tomorrows)

Blue

We're opening the farm on Wednesday.

Chicken coop

One of Dad's recent projects has been to design and construct a coop for Libby's chickens.

Consider

Nap time

Colorful

Camp dog

 Charlie went camping last week when our family went on our annual July 4th excursion to the back end of our property. He had a wonderful time playing, hanging out, and scrounging under the picnic tables. 

Hint of pink

Three generations

Orange

Secure

Superman

All the Cooks

33 years

June 21 marked my parents' thirty-third anniversary. 

Greenberries

Spinach, feta turkey and PJ

Amanda, Judith, Kaelyn, Janessa and Austin were my guests for dinner last week. The big girls had spinach and feta turkey burgers (recipe here) with pitas, cucumber, tomato, avocado and hummus, served with iced mint tea. The little girls had peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches and pink lemonade. Austin had a bottle. Then big and little girls polished off an entire strawberry pie. Delicious.