Try Again

It has been ages since we wrote on this blog. But I was missing you today, each of you. And wishing we could and would write.

It is summer is full glory. The days are endless, the nights never dark. The strawberries and cherries are rolling in and we worked up about 30 lbs of strawberries yesterday!

Our three nieces (Janis' sisters girls are here). They are great helpers. But it makes me sad that your kids are all so far away. Perhaps when they get older they can spend summers in Europe with their cousins. . . .

I have been painting a lot. I am supposed to have a booth in Riga next week in one ritzy spot. The song and dance festival which is a every 4 years is next week. Riga will have lots of people next week and I am hoping that my first time trying to sell something here in LV will go ok.

What are you all doing?

Our tomatoes this year are monsters, we have a new green house. We got a truck load of manure and these tomatoes are growing like zrazy. None ripe yet, but it looks like it will be a good crop. We have 30 plants. We have the old greenhouse with cucumbers- hoping to can a lot of pickles this summer.

I wish I could savor summer and really enjoy it- but it seems to be slipping through my fingers and I haven't even gone swimming once.

How are you enjoing summer?

Love you all!