PS. (PreScript, in this case): Please take another look at the letters below--I added pictures!
Dear Heather,
If you were here today you and the kids could have helped me pick the thousands of strawberries that ripened in our short absence. I planted these strawberries in a very grumpy manner last year and then pinched the blossoms to encourage a good crop this year. Seems to have worked. We've been grazing on our strawberries for a couple weeks, but suddenly they're mostly ripe and ready to eat or make into freezer jam.
A close look and you see they are pesticide-free and organic--a few bug holes in some, an ant traveling the red, bumpy surface--but the bad parts we just cut out or throw on the compost pile. I often eyeball the location of holes and try to eat around them, hoping I'm not ingesting ants or other little critters.
The girls ate a wealth of the berries on their yogurt after dinner tonight.
Merry,
Elspeth,
and Sadly-Not-Beatrix. She has to be content with her fist and numnums.
Prior to sleeping, the girls and Martin are, at this very moment, singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," followed by "O Christmas Tree." Very odd.
Wish you were here and could help us eat the bounty,
xoxoxoxo
Kimby
3 comments:
Your Aunt told me about Elspeth's love of Strawberries.
"More, please!"
She loves them, which she could share them with you.
Bea is absolutely adorable, what a beautific child!
You done good, kid!
Those strawberries look incredible. I'll trade a patch of California poppies for a patch of them!
I was feeling sad yesterday that my kids weren't getting to do what I felt were traditional American summer things - running in a sprinkler, enjoying the shade of a big tree, playing carefree outdoor games with other kids, feeling soft, lush grass beneath their bare feet (we're trying, but I don't think we'll ever achieve "soft" or "lush" here). Luke and I decided we'd like to try to make it a tradition, starting next year, to spend a couple weeks at Wazoo Farm every summer - one with just me & the kids, then one with Luke joining us. That is, if that's okay with you! :-)
But not this summer - I'm afraid that having three kids has temporarily killed my desire for cross-continental travel, especially without Luke! Making it to the beach in August will be adventure enough!
We'd LOVE to have that tradition with you! Make it a month!
We miss you guys, too, and wish all the time that you lived right next door! Seems that would be natural, somehow. . .
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