A happy and blessed Summer Solstice

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

13. Sorry, I was outside picking more.

As the light shifts, I can see berries I couldn't in the morning. I'm closing in on 4 L for just today, and almost 8 L for the season thus far, so I could make a couple of pies, but we actually freeze the entire crop, then have a canning fest just before year's end, and give out black raspberry jam as gifts.

And with raspberries, you don't need much in the way of a green thumb. The problem is keeping them from taking over the entire yard, not keeping them alive.

It appears we have, at least for a bit, less wildlife around. The two feral cats that had been living next door are gone. The woman who lived there had put out food for them, and when she died, her children kept returning daily to feed them, but they finally sold the house, and appear to have caught and taken the cats off with them. So the yard will be safer again for the birds and small mammals.