Jelly Making

We had such a great farm weekend!

We arrived at 10:30 Friday night and tried sleeping in a 50 degree house. Don't ask. Aleks finally got out of bed to get extra blankets around 1:30 AM as we were turning into popsicles. Even the digital clock was partially frozen - we kept ignoring Mason's gentle whines because our clock said 6:30 AM around 8:00 AM! oops

We had fun making Jelly on Saturday. It was great to have Lisa and Mike come for the day to help out. At one point Aleks even took Mike to cut down some trees. I think we made at least 5 batches of jelly. I don't know how many jars or cups that comes to, but it was definitely not record breaking.

On Sunday Aleks and I took Mason to go apple picking and get pumpkins, which was fun. The house got winterized with storm windows, removing ACs, Aleks' 4 hours of lawn mowing, bringing fire wood onto the porch, and all that "fun" stuff.

Mason definitely had a blast running around and playing with Sherlock. It was great to see them getting along, for the most part. Thanks everyone for a great weekend and another great year of Jelly. It's hard to belive that it was already three years ago that Aleks proposed (October 1st, 2005 on our "jelly making weekend"). WOW, how time flies.

Here's a link to a few of our weekend pictures:
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=11551223241916560/l=428470817/g=8006030/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB