Black Caps are ripening

We have quite a few black cap raspberries hiding amongst the wild greenery, and they're ripening.

I fought back the flocks of mosquitos and managed to pick three cups of berries.  

Have you got mosquitos like crazy?  Ours are unbearable.  I saw an article that said the mosquito population in Minnesota has tripled this year.  I believe it!

Two jars of black raspberry/jalapeno jam.

Can't wait to try it! 

Strawberries!

We've been to the berry patch.  Lorence's have the best berries!

And we've made jam.

And Girl of the House made delicious strawberry shortcake, all from scratch. Even the whipped cream.  Mmmmmm...

Strawberries!

Our CSA has strawberries!


And they're all you can pick!

Girl of the House and I picked over seven pounds and headed home, feeling greedy.

The berries were perfect and delicious.




For the first time in our lives, Paul and I canned strawberry jam.

We tried two recipes and made 17 eight-ounce jars of jam.








Girl of the House exercised her baking talent, and made a fabulous strawberry pie.

That pie didn't last very long!