These past few days have been filled with yumminess! When my mom was here, we went blueberry picking… $1/pound for organic blueberries!! I only got ~4 pounds and they went into the freezer. But, I will go back! Then, I noticed that some of my wineberries were ready to pick. This is my first year having berries at this house. I planted ~15 raspberries last fall, but they probably won’t produce anything this year. I also put in 4 wineberries. They taste like a mix of a raspberry and a blackberry. Here’s my first mini-harvest:

Then, this weekend, I went to a friend’s house to can some tomatoes. They have just started a garden this year and are taking their produce to the local farmers markets. But, there were so many extra tomatoes that we ended up canning 26 quarts of tomato sauce!! Here are some picks from the canning party.

Then, I went out to a different blueberry farm this morning to do some more picking. Another place with organic blueberries for only $1/pound!! I only ended up getting ~1# before my friend, B, got stung by a yellow jacket and we realized that there was a nest ~10 feet from where we had put our blanket for the kids. B was a bit shaken by the whole thing (she hates insects, especially stinging ones), so we decided to just head home. When we were turning into her neighborhood, we saw a little baby holding onto a nurf ball, walking in the middle of the street with just a diaper on. He couldn’t have been much over a year old. I slowed down and waited for his parent to grab him out of the street, but no one came. He looked really scared. So, B jumped out of the car and picked him up and we started knocking on doors trying to find his parents. Soon, I saw a man coming out a house down the street and I said “are you looking for a baby??” He didn’t respond, but just started running towards me. Then he started making the sign for baby and I realized that he was deaf and never heard his little boy open the front door and leave the house. He was so shaken! I felt like crying when I thought of what might have happened if some one had come plowing around the corner and not seen the baby! And imagine if you could never hear your child’s cries, or laughter? I’m feeling very blessed for all of my senses right now, and that the little baby is safe at home now!