The rain is good for many things. Yesterday morning when I was catching up on my
magi zines and it was raining outside (meaning no Sunday morning field work) and hubby made waffles for me. Using local spelt flour, our own eggs, last years honey,
Amish butter, and milk from our herd share. The only thing not local was the powdered sugar he dusted on top (next time maple syrup!)
Around noon the sun had come out so we went out and picked and weeded. We discovered enough carrots to include them in the week's share! Then we washed everything up, bundled and set up.
Unfortunately, the first 3 members came right on time (I was late they were not early) and I had neither washed the mud off my arms, changed out of my dirty picking shirt, or brushed my hair. I looked a sight! So after they left I left hubby in the sorting shed while I ran to the house and made myself a little more presentable.
After we talked about next year and late season plans a little hubby then went out to do some more weeding (have I ever mentioned how much we covet a
cultivating tractor?) And I waited for the rest of our members. Sunday pickups are nice because they are a little slower paced then
Wednesday's. Same number of people but more time for them to come.
Around 4:30 hubby stopped by the sorting shed again and showed me an amazing red onion he had pulled from our garden. Our onions are bulbing up and this one was 3 inches in diameter and
beautiful. I am so excited to have nice onions! While I finished up with pickup, the last couple members came, and I cleaned up the shed, hubby went in to make a pizza for supper.
We had made dough with whole wheat flour from our co-op, the cheese I had made from our herd-share milk, the veggies were all from our garden (except for a couple mushrooms from PA), the sausage was from local pork, and we cracked one of our eggs on top. I do have to admit that hubby put a little imported
Italian salami on top, but wow did that add something to it... All in all it was one of the best pizza I have eaten in a long time.
We finished off the evening by doing nothing productive. We read a little, surfed the
Internet a little, and watched the Tour 'd France and Next Food Network Star (which is a post in itself!)
All and all it was a good day. We got stuff done, our members got good food, we got good food, and had some time to breath... If only there were more days like that.