forever...!

 Strawberry fields.  Forever.  

The strawberries are ripe in Central New York!  We only picked two quarts today, because:  five dollars a quart!  They ARE good, but....

We'll go again maybe on Monday to a different place, get a few more.  

We had big plans today, to take back the bottles and cans, but didn't get around to it.  We haven't done too much, just watering the plants, I swept and mopped the floors...Molly and Josh brought little Ophelia over for a visit, and dang it, I forgot to get a pic of her...she had on the cutest little jumper, she's so sweet.

Baby Rhys continues to grow and be sweet, all the way back in Oregon...

It's no fair, I tell you.  She was born early Saturday morning, and was already back up to her birth weight at her Monday afternoon check up.  She won't stay tiny for long!  I did buy this set for her, a few months back, isn't it so pretty?

Did you know I got a beautiful new suitcase for Mother's Day?  Well, Aaron sent it to me, and it cracked a little bit on it's maiden voyage.  Never fall for that trick where they offer to gate check your bag for free so there's enough room in the overhead bins.   Way too rough on the luggage!  Not only cracked, but little dents, and some scraping down the side, of my BRAND NEW SUITCASE.   It has a lifetime warranty, so Aaron sent them a pic, and voila, a new one came in the mail already!  Now, I need to go on another trip...

So, next stop:  California!  Not sure when yet...

Then, hopefully back to Oregon before too long, that baby needs snuggles from Grandma, and Achilles does too. 

It's a rainy afternoon here, not pool weather.  I don't mind.  Little Anne, my dear little friend, she's four years old now, and she's coming over this evening to spend some time here.  I am very excited for that.  She was here almost every day, before Covid hit.  That was one of the hardest parts of it for me, the sudden stoppage in Anne visits.  I did stop at their house a few times for distanced visits with the door open...she didn't understand, she wanted me to just come right in!  Poor kids, kids all across this whole big world, going without hugs and stories from grandmas and grandpas, and special friends and aunties and uncles...(Anne is my sister's granddaughter, so my great-niece).

Ah well, it's good things are mostly back to normal.  Summer fun is beginning...yay!