home and the cherries and raspberries are coming

got home from my annual exposure to eastern washington and idaho.......great fun!! and i am glad to be home.....so much to do!!

sister retreat 2009........
we had another great year...what a treat to enjoy time with Lucy....she is amazing and so good natured ...she charmed everyone she met. they loved her at Bud's in St Marys i spent a good deal of time opening up the old orchard trail again....(3rd year)...and have made a new path in on the driveway side each year and then improved existing trails with in the old orchard and up to yurt site #1... oh and site of new orchard and vegie garden......not to mention view extrodinaire....the interior decorators, sistas b (Linda) and d (Kathy), and Te worked their magic and Kathy will be composting food waste.....yah!!!!!!!! i almost read a book, WORLD MADE BY HAND and listened to the first few chapters of THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA i will be asking my friend Bill the farmer if his ruminants are grass feed. i may, at least for the short term, consider a new energy star freezer and the eating of some beef. Chad has shown interest in producing some beef jerky. oh and sista d here is the dehydrator operation i spoke of.......
back to books.....i'm old enough to draw social security and still working on following thru...we'll see......oh and had the pleasure of some awesome baseball by my Mariners and some talk by my peeps



what a great week. thanks Mary and Steve (great guitar and songs...) and i look forward to seeing your new house next year and can't wait to see the gardens.....the neighborhood was so great and the trees!!!!!

and what a great couple of days with Mom and Dad in Leavenworth, Cashmere (dinner) Wenatchee for Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs great big fun!!!! thanks sista c


i also had the pleasure of a cougar hunt on the golf course with Chooch (video coming) and another chat with Papa Teen and his now, 2 years later, not so new best friend... (2yrs ago) .....checked in with Chooch on this one again too.



Te's photos some great ones!! thanks Te




i'm eating the glacier cherries now...a pretty good young tree crop and very tasty. the vans will not be far behing and the montmorencys are coming fast too. the raspberries are full speed ahead and i better get those grandkids over for a foragefest. they love the "jungle food" as they call it.



add on 7-8 the native wild blackberries are coming on....maybe a pie one of these years...... oh and i'm still fairly tuned into my root flare....