Surprising Things Growing

I was working in the garden over the weekend, and noticed that the garlic that I planted circa 2010 appeared ready to harvest.  I dug a few heads last year as well, but nothing happened all those years in between!

JP told me that while he was mowing, he noticed pears in one of my trees.  I have effectively given up on my orchard, where most of the trees have died and been replaced multiple times and then died again or still don't bloom or produce fruit.  These pears, however, are growing on one of the trees lining the driveway that are supposed to be decorative pear trees.  This one tree has always looked different than the rest, and never bloomed until this year.  Again - I planted all those trees around 2010, although several of them also had to be replaced.

I'll take it, although I wish that tree with fruit was a peach tree - yum!

July 4th Weekend

Just finished binge watching "Stranger Things" Season 3 on Netflix.  Whew!  It was nice having a lazy day today after working hard for the past several days.  It was nice to have JP home as well!  He worked 9 out of the past 12 days, and is still trying to catch up on rest, after spending his first day off mowing for 5 or more hours.

I baked Red, White and Blue Scones for breakfast on the 4th.  They were pretty, but otherwise not amazing - too bad.

The blueberries have been picked again.  I now have 6 gallons + frozen.  I also baked 2 loaves of blueberry bread to freeze for when my whole family is here this week.  I canned another 5 quarts of pie filling as well.

This is going to be a crazy week - work, appointments for the girls, family coming on Wednesday, and reunion this weekend.  I'd better go get my beauty sleep while I can!