Berry Bounty

It's been a good couple of weeks for strawberries. The strawberries we planted last year spread like crazy, and now our hedge is full of them. Here's the haul for one day:



Over the space of two days, we nearly filled a colander.



Tasty treats. The slugs haven't attacked too many berries - the resident crows have taken more. There are four of them, all of them very young-looking, and so I suspect they're an easy snack while they're learning to fend for themselves. They don't take too many, so we don't mind too terribly much. They always seem to take the best ones, though. Oh well. It's not like we're lacking for good strawberries.

Other than eating from our garden (our red leaf lettuce has gone crazy, and we might have more than we can manage to eat this summer), we've been slowly chugging away on the drywall. We finished taping this weekend, and next is the round of sanding, then the final finish layer of mud. So close! Still, I don't think we'll be done with the drywall until the end of the month. After that it should be short work to paint and put the clay up, and the trim should be up by the end of August. That's much more slowly than we wanted (we wanted to have the den torn out and the insulation up by then), but that's life. Still, we are making progress, and the hedge keeps us happy.