Weekend Update

Hello all. Time for a post-vacation weekend update in the World of Cake.

On Friday, we celebrated John Christopher's graduation from his first year of school. This week is his last week. The class sang a song about the days of the week and different food. It was great and John Christopher surprised us by the great job he did sitting in his chair and waiting his turn. Friday is "Fresh Shrimp" day and he added for all to hear, "I had shrimp in my Chinese food for lunch today!!!" Which of course he did.

Saturday we went to the Farmers Market in the University District. It was a lot of fun. The boys got some fresh bread and we bought some heirloom tomatoes to plant. We also got some other plants--basil, oregano, mint and parsley. Miles and I went to Home Depot and picked out a pepper plant and a watermelon plant for our garden. We planted all this weekend except for the watermelon, which will likely be done today. We'll keep you posted on how things go throughout the growing season.

Our first harvest of strawberries was this weekend too and we obtained about 20 small to medium sized stawberries. They were unbelievably good, nothing like the ones that are in the store. Much sweeter and jucier and redder. We ate them all very quickly. It looks like we'll have another 30 more to harvest and then our strawberry season will be done for the year.

Still working on getting pictures from the beach up, will do so soon.