Blueberries are abundant too. Made a sweet cream blueberry tart today from a recipe in an old Fanny Farmer Baking cookbook. It looks yummy and we will soon find out if it is as good as it looks!
This spring, Dennis built a new sturdier grape arbor for our Concord grapes and they are showing their appreciation as they spread out across the top and we are seeing clusters of fruit. These make wonderful grape jelly and jam when ripe and ready.
No jury duty until possibly in September ...yea ! August will be too busy as we await our guests from Fla. Many great and entertaining things going on around VT in summer. I also hope to get to the beach.... Not in VT....haha...at least once this summer.
Our little trip to the Northeast Kingdom went well and we enjoyed time spent with our grandson and his sweet family. Had a nice tea party with the little girls and got some much needed cuddles! As usual it was beautiful atop the mountain where we visited my cousins. The weather was just as nice as could be, save for a brief and loud thunderstorm just as we were going to bed in the Gypsy Wagon. We seem to be much closer to the lightening and the thunder when we are atop that mountain! I also had a great visit with my childhood friend, Janey before we headed back home. My neighbor is so sweet to come by while we are gone and check on our Miss Lizzie. She doesn't enjoy traveling and seems happy NOT to have to go anywhere in the car.
Some pictures of the wonders of summer.
Star Gazer Lilies in the front yard
Bounty from the garden
I have enjoyed a few days of sewing with cousin Natalie. She came down and spent a few mornings with me so we could work on a quilt she is making. The finished product looks very nice. Now I have to get busy and finish up a few UFO's (unfinished objects) that I have loitering around in my sewing room.
So, I'm hoping you all are enjoying this wonderful season. Take time out to breathe deeply of the wonderful scents of summer, be still for a spell and just doze in the sun and dream a dream or two!
"There are angels all around me;
I feel the flutter of their wings
Each time a friend smiles,
Takes my hand or says nice things.
God sent then all, you see,
to bear this world's sorrows
Far away from me.
Thank You ..... All my Angels!"
Dottie 2013
