Finally something to post about

I have been a busy bee lately!! Okay, for starters DD#1 started school yesterday so there was a lot of preparation to get her ready to go. Supplies to buy, clothes to find, I had to make a cover for her sleeping mat. Actually "making" should be a better word as its still 1/2 way finished in my sewing machine.

Then there's our vegetable garden. Well, we started out at the beginning of the year thinking we'd have a veggie garden. But as it turns out all we had time for were a few potted tomatoes. But they are turning out great and the tomatoes are delicious! They actually have a flavor versus the pale sickly one's at the commissary that don't taste like anything! You can see I have about 18 of 'em just sitting here waiting for...for something! :-) Actually I have discovered my canning itch and think I will make either some salsa or spaghetti sauce.

And speaking of canning, I bought 4 packs of strawberries that were on sale the other day and made these:

Some nice strawberry jam to eat, yumm!! And one final project, here I am actually KNITTING a hat for our baby-on-the-way. Which, she does have a name now! Gwendolynn Autumn, what do you think?? Anyway, here's a parting shot of Gwendolynn's hat-in-the-making...