Baking, Baseball and Botany

Cade is back in baseball this year and loving it. 

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I have to admit I love it too.  No rainy, muddy fields like in Jersey or Washington.  Just blue skies.  It’s great!

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Reagan has been doing a lot of baking lately.  He has help sometimes.
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He picked the cherries for this pie from our very own cherry tree!  He pitted the cherries and made the crust from scratch.

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A few days later he made Rock’s Father’s Day apple pie from scratch too. 

And I made my first batch of freezer jam! 

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My children now call me blessed.  Who knew Winco jam was that bad. Picky picky people.

We planted a garden this year!  We started small, just strawberries and tomatoes, but it’s something.  
 
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The odds have not been in our favor, though.  The birds have been eating our strawberries (we haven’t gotten to eat a single one!) and Levi was trying to help one day and weeded one of our tomato plants.  He was devastated when he realized what he’d done.  It was so sad and funny at the same time.  But at least everything is growing! 

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See the green balls!

So are the birds going to eat my tomatoes too????

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