GLORIA KEEPS BUSY

I've been spending my afternoons  indoors to stay out of the heat.  I'm doing a lot of sewing making pillowcase dresses for the young girls for project of 100 dresses for Africa.  I learned how to do them in May and took three kits home to get started.  I decided this was a great way to use up some of Zella's old material and I've done about 28 so far and will keep it up until Aug when a gal from Wellsville will be taking them all with her when she goes to Africa.

Questar Gas put out a great rebate of cutting down on usage by better insulating the house.  When we built the home we had quite a bit put in attic, but I had a company add another 20 inches as with the rebate my cost was not very much.  We'll see how much it helps.

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Look at the beautiful deck floor that Ryan, Rachel, Jake and I finally finished but haven't had time to put all the furniture back on it.  We did it all by hand the way dad and I used to do it and hopefully it will last many years before it has to be done again, HA!

I'm in the jammin' business in the mornings.  I'm up at 6:00 to walk 1.6 mi along road to River Heights (along with everyone else), then I come home and pick either strawberries to freeze, eat and share, and now the beautiful raspberries are coming on strong.  The past two mornings I've made 9 jars of jam for my grandbaby bears to take home with them when they come to visit.  I'm sharing with Ryan and Rachel as he did so much work last fall the transplant many of the wild starts that were popping up all over.

If you'll look closely you'll see those above are in the north garden where Jesse and Holly erected that fence and also some that Brooke and Sunshine transplanted during an Oct visit.  These to the right are wild starts that are in south garden that Jesse, Brady, and Justin did lots of prep and put a drip system in.  So you all have helped in one way or another in getting my raspberries to the point where you'll all reap the benefits of hard work.  Thank you very much!!