Summer

Busy, busy, busy!

Yesterday was Knut’s birthday.  We had a last minute party when we saw a break in work.  I was going to post this fun birthday post, but the last minute party had me thinking I should clean up before people come over.  So for a few blissful moments, much of my house was clean.

My brother flew up from California kind of spur of the moment to spend a long weekend with us.  It made Knut’s birthday that much more fun.  He booked a plane ticket just after I posted about making rhubarb jelly.  Coincidence?  I think not…

He’ll be here until Tuesday and we’ll be spending all day today making rhubarb jelly and my Auntie Signe’s recipe for rhubarb/blueberry jam.  He came up here with a list of “orders.”  I think I’m going to show him how to make yogurt too.

I went out to feed the chickens yesterday.  There were the 18 (which includes the separated/injured one.)  I left the coop door open as I went back to the house to fill up their water.  When I returned to the coop, there were 19.  One lost in the woods has returned.  That was so neat.

I’m having trouble getting thoughts to focus lately.  So much swirling around in my brain.  I want to get the “I’m Blessed” post done for Monday, and am probably playing it up too much in my head.  I’m also trying to wrap my brain around what to do with a big medical bill we just got in the mail from my surgery in Arizona 2 years ago.  As in, before I was pregnant with Solveig.  It’s like the anaesthesiologist just woke up and said “Hey, didn’t I help remove a cyst from that one lady a few years ago?  Did I ever send the bill for that?”  Ugh.  Like I have time to sort that out.

My squash plant has died…again.  This will be our 3rd year without squash.  I tried looking for one already started at the nursery, and they’re out of squash vines.  The cucumber vine never came up either, but I was able to get one of those vines at the nursery.  Other than that, the garden is coming along great.  The asparagus is now done, and our strawberry crop is looking like I’ve never seen it before.  We have so many huge berries that are nearly red.  It’s going to be amazing in a few days!  Knut is now enjoying fresh spinach from our garden in his egg mash dish he makes every morning, and we have fresh salads at night.

Summer is so busy.  I think whoever called it a vacation was using that term pretty loosely.

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