summer in Merritt

HI.. another truly beautiful day... I have spent the last couple of days picking currants... picked 4 ice cream buckets of black and one and half of the red currants, and there are still lots left to pick... i think i have enough for me, so will open the bushes to friends...Dad got me bushes about 15 years ago, a friend of theirs didn't want them anymore, so dear old Dad dug them up, about 10 bushes, and replanted them for me..we have had currant jelly for years, a couple of years ago, i got mad at them as they weren't producing so i cut them right back to the ground and let them start over, they are doing great now...another year or two i will do that again... I love the red currant jelly...

this is the view out of our front room window... the brown trees are the bug killed, the green one in the middle will be brown by next year.. the needles will fall off the brown trees by winter... we are lucky that we have some fir in our yard and we have been adding trees every year...

this is one... a Stella Cherry, a self pollinating cherry... these are our first cherries, not quite ripe yet.. a couple more sunny days... only about 2 cups, but next year there should be plenty..

this is Easy Llama bring in the herd at nite...

this is Little Bit...she was a bottle baby we raised, her ears tipped over when she was a lamb and her ears froze off.. one of the really old girls... with a nice fleece that Toni just loves..
this is the wood splitter that Larry built... he did a nice job, and it works good, we will be able to use all the bug kill for fire wood.. better go throw the laundry into the dryer... that is one thing on our Honey Dew list, a clothes line...the list gets longer every day.....