Strawberry Picking

Strawberry Picking!!! It was so much fun, we are going again this week...

so we picked 10 pounds of strawberries this day, then we went back when John got off work and picked again! 11 pounds that time! Then you may say "what did you do with all those berries?" well, let me tell you. I learned how to make jelly :-) yep! I washed, hulled and cut 20+ pounds of berries, made them into jelly, canned them myself and now I have...about....40 jars of strawberry jelly! (laughing) it's in the freezer, it's in the fridge, its everywhere! What was I thinking? So I guess I'll have to make some homemade bread to put it on! I already made biscuits from scratch and took warm biscuits to the neighbors with a jar of jelly...they loved it!

by the way, I dont' have a picture here, but since I was on the canning spree, I bought about 20 pounds of pickling cukes and made bread and butter pickles too! lets just say my fridge is full and if I was on the Oregon trail, well...we would have lots of jelly and pickles. I might have to barter one of my children for a loaf of bread though!

another fine day at the zoo!

The best thing about this trip to the zoo, Columbia zoo actually...it was 92 miles away, ugh.. anyway the best thing was that it was free. We had purchased an annual pass at the Pittsburgh zoo and found out that we could get free admission here too! So we drove an hour and a half to see sleeping animals! Regardless, the girls had fun, I took a picture of them on this elephant...see Victoria? we ride elephants too! ha ha! Little John refused to ride the elephant..hmmm