Strawberry picking and making jam makes a body very tired and sore!  Karen and I both woke up today pretty sore from the bending and standing.  And my feet were VERY tired by the time I went to bed last night. 

But it was lots of fun anyway.  The day was perfect: warm, but not too humid.  The weather has been great, so the strawberry crop was excellent.  The girl working the U-Pick field told us which rows hadn’t much been touched yet, and she was right! We found tons of really good berries.  We picked for about an hour and a half and then came to my house for lunch and to start making jam.  And we did it!  It turns out that jam making is time-consuming, but not difficult.  As my Grandma Campbell told my mom once, if you follow the Sure-Jell directions exactly…you just can’t mess it up.  So we made 5 batches of jam yesterday.  I froze some in the evening.  Karen is going to try to get back over here this afternoon to work on the rest of them, but we’ll get it done pretty quickly now, I think.

So other than finishing strawberry stuff, I may run some errands and do some smaller cleaning chores. Such fun, huh?