Saturday on the farm with the Girls

The day began with more news of a fire on Mt. Hood, the wind shifted and the air was hazy with smoke.  The light was rather yellow.  The girls enjoyed being outside and exploring the woods.  Jenna found a big "bouquet" of "Big Leaf Maple" leaves and brought them to show us.  

The creek and pond are clearing up well after the cleaning.

Prior to the cleaning the rocks were all dark brown, covered with moss and mud.  Now they're all pretty and clean!

The red leaf maple tree will begin turning pretty fall colors soon.

The girls and grandpa picked more blackberries behind the garage - with plans to have them on vanilla ice cream after lunch.

Grandpa then let the chickens out and collected the eggs.  It's neat as we can tell which hen laid which egg.  The pale green is from Betsy Ross, the Ameracauna.  The large pinkie brown one is from Rose Gold, the Buff Orpington.  The slightly darker brown one is from Bella, the Rhode Island Red.

I made the girls their favorite meal, grilled cheese with potato bread and Tillamook cheddar cheese.

Jenna found a bouquet of Queen Anne's Lace and grandpa took the garden shears to cut them for her.  Gramps and Paige were chatting.

See the bug on the flowers?

Time for ice cream!  We had vanilla ice cream, and we had a banana and dotted fresh blackberries on top.  This is before I smooshed it up!

Not being an adventurous eater, Jenna chose to just have Hershey's syrup on top.  She liked PICKING the blackberries, but was not going to actually EAT one.  Oh no.  Huh-uh.  :-)

They harvested 2 "hallocks" of berries.

Below is my bowl of smooshed up berries, bananas and ice cream, so I thought, why not add some chocolate sauce?  Hubby pours it on for me.  :-)

Paige is the more adventurous eater.. at least for now.. and she is relishing her berry soup.

And what to our surprise, but the mailman pulled up with a package, and Paige's LaLaLoopsy doll arrived a full week before it was expected!  So, we sang Happy Birthday to Paige and opened the package - we were all so happy and excited!!

Below I snapped a photo of Jenna with my iPhone - she was climbing and exploring around the pond and I thought she looked so cute.

Our daughter Amy came later in the evening to collect the girls.  They are flying out on September 14th for their new life in Ohio.  2,000 miles away.  ::deep breath::

We are packing today for a 5 day camping trip to Pacific City on the Oregon Coast on the Pacific Ocean.  Hopefully the wifi will work and I can visit you while we're away.  Thanks for visiting and the lovely comments.
((hugs)), Teresa :-)