~As July Comes To A Close~

Good day to you. It is such a beautiful morning here in Vermont. There is just a hint of coolness in the air, a gentle reminder that fall is not far off. The birds are flittering about..enjoying the bread I've started placing in the flat feeder for them.

Yesterday I picked the first Zucchini from our garden. Now that things have started to rippen...they will come so quickly I will barely be able to keep up and I will soon have baskets full of delicious organic veggies to share with family & friends. We freeze all that we can but there is always enough to share. I also plan on trying my hand at canning a few things..although we will see if I end up having time for that......

July has been such a wonderful month full of fun summer activities and fantastic memories....

(from left to right...Mom, Cristen, Me, Darlene & Jenna)

These photo's are from this past weekend at the New England BBQ Championships at Harpoon Brewery in Windsor VT...OH my goodness we all had such a great time!

Jenna & Ben met us there..and mom & dad...my nephew Shawn...My sister Darlene, brother in law Donny, niece Cristen and Mark & I met Kurt there......Kurt has been working this event for the past 3 years as one of his friends is a bbq vendor......this is the first year Kurt has been of age at this event......SOOOO.....they made a big deal of it..and a good time was had by all ;)

(from left to right...Kurt, Cristen & Shawn)

(Mark & I standing in front of the Simon Pierce Glass factory)......which is on the grounds where the bbq championships were...we went inside & watched them blowing glass..it was so neat!

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And now we will be moving on to August........