Friday Randomness.

I made these cute little slippers last week. I adapted this baby slipper pattern from goodknits. 

I posted a picture of them on facebook and I had a couple people offer to buy them from me if I made them in Oregon Ducks or Oregon State Beavers colors. I think this weekend I might go pick up some green to go with the yellow and whip up a few pairs. 

School started on Wednesday here. We live right across from the middle school so that's always fun. What is with kids this age? They're on their way to becoming pita high schoolers so right now they're just being little brats. They're working their way up to being full pita. The very first day of school our yard was full of trash, one of the kids opened the gate to our backyard, and we found marijuana hidden in our fence. It's not the worst place to stash your pot as you wait to pick it up after school, but it's not the most ingenious either.

At jam night last night the farmer guitar player brought more of his amazing corn (it has both yellow and white kernels) and he gave me a watermelon. He grows a giant garden so his friends and family can use it for canning and he said that we can come over when the tomatoes are ripe and pick as many as we want. He has over 300 tomato plants.

Speaking of fresh produce, I'm supposed to be picking up a 1/2 bushel (24 lbs.) of pickling cucumbers on Saturday. On Monday the orchard opens for u-pick peaches and nectarines. Our neighbor down the street also has grapes growing that he said we could have as long as I make his little 3 year old daughter some jelly. I think this will be a very busy canning week in my house.

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