Wrap-around sunset

We had a wrap-around sunset the other evening. It's not unusual to have brilliant sunsets this time of year, but it is unusual when the entire sky blazes with color. The sun rises in the east, behind the barn, and sets in the west, behind our neighbor's house. But at quarter after nine at night, a couple of weeks ago, the sky behind the barn was streaked with pinks and purples while the western sky boasted blue-gray clouds against a pale pink background. Unfortunately my camera can not capture a 360 degree view, or I could have photographed a wrap-around sunset.

Blueberries

Frog

This little guy was waiting for us at the door when we arrived at the blueberry barn Saturday morning. He provided Libby with nearly an hour of entertainment before she sent him to find the rest of his family.

Outnumbered

...by girls

Blueberry girls

Some of the blueberry girls resting in the shade after dinner at the blueberry farm.

We are the "blueberry girls." While Brian and Logan help with the blueberries too, most of the work is done by the ladies in our family. This year we make quite the team.

The other day I returned from the blueberry farm with the pick-up truck loaded with blueberries to be stored in our root cellar until market day. We transfer the berries in wooden carries that hold eight quarts of berries.

"Betsy, don't you do too much!" I called from the back of the truck where I was moving carriers to the tailgate. Then I noticed Lauren ready to lug a carrier down the root cellar steps. We sent her with the ice cream pail full of bad berries to dump in the chicken pen, since we didn't want her to hurt her back carrying blueberries.

About that time Julie commented that we blueberry girls made quite the team. Libby has bad knees; Julie has a healing pelvis; Betsy has healing kidney, liver and ribs; and Naomi has a pebble in her elbow that sometime causes her arm to swell and hurt.

We make quite the team of blueberry girls. We all have to work together because none of us could do the job alone.

Engagement

Thrift store

Lauren is a thrift store shopper. While my aunt was in town last week, we girls descended upon the local Salvation Army Thrift Store and asked our sister-in-law-to-be to join us. Lauren is a serious shopper. She hauls piles of clothes from the racks to the dressing room and sorts through the pile, discarding most of the items. The outing was a success and we left the store with bags of skirts, jumpers and shirts.