Harvest Becoming Plentiful

So we are now harvesting tons of zucchini, tomatoes and the cucumbers are fast approaching. If anyone wants anything you might think about venturing over. We'd love to have company! Our anniversary gift to each other was buying a new pressure canner and a water bath canner! So far we've just done pickled beets. The green beans are just beginning to appear and we have tons of tomatoes. I'm not sure what I will do with all of these. Anyone have a really good salsa recipe? We seem to like the chunky salsa like we eat in Mazatlan; I'm not sure that we can "can" that. I have plenty of frozen zucchini and have been experimenting with baking some bread and chocolate cake. Not bad.....The sweet corn will probably be ready by Monday or so. Tony has been watering it every night as we have not had any rain for about 4 weeks now! Steve how is your corn? Will you have enough for everyone to freeze? We should have more than enough if anyone is interested in freezing corn here. You just have to let us know! Oh, before I forget......I took a job with Aramark on the University of South Dakota campus in Vermillion. I start August 6th and will be their Office Manager. Aramark does the food service, catering and concessions for the college; about 4 million in revenue a year. So I am pretty excited about the opportunity and the flexibility of hours that they can give me down the road. The other exciting thing is that the college is building a new student center which will be completed in a year and a half. This means we will have new offices, kitchen, etc and I will get to help with purchasing of all that stuff!! Lot's of things to look forward to. Just need to get myself accustomed to waking up earlier in the morning; Tony says this will be a major undertaking!

Home Safely

Just wanted to let everyone know that I arrived home safely on Tuesday at 1pm. Left Tony and Jennifer's at 4:45am Monday, thanks to the both of them getting me up. My goal was to get to Billings, MT and 12 hours and 793 miles later I had made it. The day actually went pretty fast, but after a shower and a meal, I was asleep by 8, then hit the road again at 5:30am. My second day miles was an easy 553. I wanted also to tell everyone that I had a blast during camp week and it was so good to see everyone. What a great family we have. I love and miss you all. Dad was probably shaking his head a few times at our antics, but I know he was with us, as he always is.

He's a Winner!!

The Camp Okoboji Quilt Auction was held this past Saturday. Tony, Jennifer, Grandma and myself attended the event for the day. Just wanted you all to know that our little Weber brought in $210.00!!! You could have picked my chin up off the floor. While I was hoping that he would bring at least $100, I never imagined that it would bring that much. Grandma says we need to make Weber II for next year. Not a bad idea--at least we know how to do that one! If you don't remember what Weber looked like, just go to previous post titled "Cut, Stitch, Snip" and you will see him. Until next year. . . .