Well Heck

I’m totally humbled. 

I had no thought of winning this week.  I really just had an idea of a picture and a post, and knowing that I’m havin’ a hard time posting except for the header challenge change over, I just put up my favorite picture of Dirt and Anna with our changing foliage behind them.  

And I was late on top of that.  Really late, not just a half hour or so but nearly a half a day late, okay yeah, actually I think I was pretty close to twelve hours late.  I haven’t stayed up that late in quite a while, certainly not alone or on purpose.  So I just have to say a big thanks to the fellas for picking my header as this weeks winner. 

Tomorrow is another big day of preping the Farm for the wedding.  Two weeks and two days.  Wow. 

Saturday is Anna’s birthday and she has chosen to make us all go into the mountains to pick huckle berries.  Not the tart little red ones of the low lands.  Up around four to five thousand feet grow amazing deep dark purple huckle berries.  They’re a bit like a blueberry but bigger, juicier, taster, better.  In Yakima, at the base of the mountains where there are many berry patches, they sell for ten and a half to thirty bucks a gallon depending on the year. 

They make great pies.  Great jam too, but if they aren’t in pies I like them best in smoothies. or shakes.  They don’t turn into wine very easily at all, so Dirt has stopped trying and leaves my berries for pie and ice cream. 

Usually we are already camping up at Iron Creek where we hold base came each year on Labor Day weekend, the best time for berry pickin’.  But we sort of knew in the backs of our minds that things were going to be a bit different this September.  We gladly are taking a break from the big camping trip so that we can have an even bigger celebration of a new life.

Oh and for the record, Anna will be taking three ratters with her (Rat Terriers) and her new house comes with its very own tabby cat named Floyd.  I am sure that after a resonable settling in time she will get back to blogging.  Fortunately for us, there is no room for a horse not even a small one, so Holly and Marvelous stay here at VF&G.

Well I’m just yappin’ at you Dear Reader and I oughta be asleep making up for lost time last night.  Just wanted to say thanks for the fellas voting for me this week and looking forward to next week’s challenge.Ta Da!