Catch up pictures

Well, it has been a while since a CSA update :-) I am trying to get my pictures uploaded in a timely fashion, unfortunately that rarely happens. The CSA is definitely struggling this year. We are probably getting about half of what we did last year at this time. It's definitely sad, especially for the farmers who work so hard. This week we found out that some of their tomato plants have the late blight. They pulled those up and got rid of them, but they are concerned that it may spread to the rest of their tomatoes and the potatoes as well. We are crossing our fingers that that will not happen of course. Last year they put away 100 quarts of tomatoes just for themselves, so not sure how that will work out this year. I'm thankful that we have the CSA though, and are at least able to have some fresh produce every week. A lot of people aren't able to. We won't be getting the winter CSA this year I don't believe. We don't have the cash available unfortunately. And actually, I'm not sure this would be a good year to get a winter CSA because the weather in Maine has been so horrible, I dno't know that we would get our money's worth. Although, all maine produce this winter will probably be super expensive. I'm not overly concerned though because the farmers' market will still be going strong this winter, and I'm sure we will be able to get what we need from there. Here are pictures for the past two weeks of CSA shares, as well as some pictures of what has come from my garden.














All those cucumbers have been loved by my little family this past week. I still have a few left for cucumber sandwiches today. Those little potatoes went into a potato salad for me to eat (with some fresh off the farm eggs, yum). It is so satisfying to eat something that you actually have grown. My spaghetti squash plant is now taking over the entire garden. I have quite a few squash growing...and they have sent their little feelers out to attach to things such as my flour corn...potatoes...green peppers...and the little fence surrounding my garden. I'm looking forward to eating that though as well!

I have a bunch of sewing pictures to show. The next few are gifts that I made for my niece as well as some matchy matchy skirts mama and her babe. Of course the skirt doesn't fit Emma anymore...that was short lived. Should have used more elastic in the waist.







That first one has actually not gotten to its intended recipient as of yet. It is a dress that I made for my niece Riley, however, I have absolutely no idea how to put a zipper on the back...and since the dress only came with the first page of directions (out of 3), I'm lucky it looks like a dress at all! Luckily it also only came with the pattern for size 6-7-8, not the 5T that I had been looking for. So I am hoping it will fit her next year...We shall see if she ever receives this :-) Maybe by Christmas though!

This next one is of my new hippie skirt (which is what Matt calls it). I guess it doesn't look like a hippie skirt, but I like it. I was looking for something more for this winter, and found this fabric which I loved, so I made a long skirt with a lining, it is pretty heavy, but very comfy. Jess, I think I will be wearing this to the Farmers' Market on Saturday, I should fit in quite well :-)



And finally, here is a picture of the crown moulding that we put up this week. Still have a lot more to do, such as painting, and actually getting the rest up, but it is a start!