Time has flown since I last wrote a blog. During those past couple of weeks the weather has taken a big turn for the better. The sunny, warm days have dried up many of the ponds in the fields, and our garden and farmers’ crops are growing like crazy.

     This past week we picked black raspberries and lettuce. Over the weekend, our beans and peas should be ready. I’m sure there will be more raspberries, too. I’d love to make some black raspberry jelly, but I don’t know if I will be able to gather enough. It’s not that the raspberries are not prolific. Rather, it’s because my children love them so much it’s hard to keep enough on hand for a batch of jelly. It seems selfish to tell them they can’t eat the fresh fruit they love so much. Their favorite way of eating raspberries is to pick them off the bush and pop them in their mouths.

      Maggie, our yellow Lab, also likes to eat raspberries. We have to keep her in the house while we’re picking or she would strip the bushes before we get the berries picked.

       This is my favorite time of summer; the grass has slowed down its growth a bit, the garden is producing wonderful fruits and vegies and the start of school is still several weeks away. Now if the mosquitoes would become a litle less fierce, farm life would be near-perfect.