Week of 7/28/24

What a busy time this hot summer week has been, besides the usual harvesting in the garden, the blackberries are ripe, and the crop is huge! I picked 80 quarts of the wild blackberries this week, and I have noticed that the thorns seem extra long this year. Most of these berries will go into the freezer that Ruth will use for pies that she bakes for the Spring Green Farmers Market.

On Friday we had a military funeral in the 90-degree heat. I am on the firing squad for the Highland Post #9440, and it was very hot in that blazing sun. None of the younger veterans show up for the military funerals. It is mostly those from the Vietnam War who are now in the 70s. At 91, having served in the Korean War, I am the oldest one still alive.

Saturday was my granddaughter Kylie’s big wedding day. At four in the afternoon the marriage took place at the Moneypenny’s farm. The meal and dancing followed that evening in the huge machine shed that seated 480 people that night. There was also a mechanical bull riding contest that night. Somehow this 91 year old grandfather was talked into riding it. To everyone’s surprise after a 30 second ride I was still on. I had beat the bull, one of the few.