Family Fun Day

This morning we had a little conversation at the breakfast table kitchen-area-where-we-all stand-or-sit-since most-everything-is-packed-and-our-table-is-sold.  We talked about how God provided the Sabbath as a day of rest and time to spend special with Him each week and how we need to have special time like a "family sabbath" where our whole purpose is to spend time together bonding as a family.  Today was totally family time; not work-on-the-house time, not chore time, none of that; just pure, plain fun with just the four of us.

We spent our morning down at the Amish produce auction.  Sorry, no pictures of there, out of respect for the Amish people.  We all enjoyed listening to the auctioneer, looking at all the yummy produce, and stocking up on peaches and tomatoes to can. (I know what I'll be doing for the next several days!)

Our poor car was stocked absolutely full to the brim on our way home.  We fit 8 1/2 bushels of peaches, 200 lbs of tomatoes, and even fit both kids, two small boxes of zucchini, and a pint of fresh blackberries for our afternoon treat somewhere into our car!

Once we unloaded all the goods we headed down to the State Fair for the rest of our day.  I DO have pictures from that!

Farmer Katie

Planting pepper seeds.  I wonder just how many seeds
get planted over the course of the 17 days.

Milking the "cow"

Sawing his own wood slab with the wood miser.  This machine
is so powerful and smooth that even he could move it
entirely by himself.

Enjoying ice cream while they watched
the evening tractor parade.