This past week has been very busy.  Last Saturday my youngest, Rachel, graduated from high school.  We had a big party last Saturday before graduation and my sister-in-law from New Jersey came down to celebrate with us.  She left on Sunday and seemed to enjoy herself.

Rachel has only been able to find part time work so far so she will be helping more around the house then most summers.  This is also the first summer in seven years that we have not had basketball all summer long.  What a relief.  Ian has been able to find full time employment at least for the summer and we are hoping it will last longer than that.  He has decided to not return this fall to school.  We have mixed emotions about that but he is 20 almost 21 and it is time for him to make his own decisions.  He is also working a part time job.  David is almost done teaching for this year and maybe has one or two more days.  He will be taking a workshop or two this summer to bring in some extra money.  I am having a fibro flare up and my CFS is getting bad right now.  Time to take it easy.

This week I have been working at sorting out some of the house.  Rachel and I also went strawberry picking yesterday and got 3 gallons of beautiful berries.  I sold one gallon to my bf and processed the other two.  I made 13 half pints of strawberry jam and got four bags frozen.  We ate the rest.   I will try to get some more next week.

We are struggling financially right now so we have decided to go on a pantry challenge.  I will only buy fresh items until the deep freeze is almost gone.  Actually until I have to buy more than fresh stuff.  I have food, food and more food.  My deep freeze is full to overflowing and my freezer in the kitchen is full also.  I have alot of flour so I am going to restart making bread again.  The garden is in and I think he is afraid that I will not have room for everything once it starts coming in.  I will keep you updated on how I am doing.  Hopefully I can post some pictures if I can figure out how to use the digital camera.

Well we are going to a wedding this evening and it is time to get ready.  I will check back in soon.

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Posted by MrsC

I can not wait to pick our strawberries, but we have a few more weeks yet for that. Sorry to hear about your fibro and hope that you get to feeling better.

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