Wood Turning at its Best

Joshua has started a little business of his own. One of our friends makes and sells thousands of wooden pens. He got Joshua inspired and has shown him all the steps to making pens. From there he has also made lots of other things, backscratchers, ice cream scoops, envelope  openers, and much more. Joshua has also been working with Dad at tree trimming, so he comes home with all different kinds of wood to work with. 

Check out some of his amazing creations and more pictures at JS Creations!

Here are some of the pens he has turned. :) He has already sold a few of the bolt action pens, and he is pretty excited about it. Maid Rite in Willcox is also selling them for him. 

Fruit and Veggies

This year we got lots of peaches off of our tree. They are so sweet and juicy!! 

The big green beetles had taken over the ones that were overly ripe. Bumped the wrong one and dozens of beetles came swarming down over us, sent us all screaming in all directions.

We canned 64 quarts, froze some and made the rest into jelly.

My beautiful sister! :)

And my sweet little Mommy! :)

The raspberries are in full bloom and we have been picking up to 5 or 6 quart every other day. It is a time consuming job, but in the end it is so worth it!!

Nothing like having fresh peaches, raspberries and strawberries to put on your granola in the morning! :)

We have also been getting lots of fresh veggies from the garden and green house. Jubilee loves the carrots.

Onions anyone?!

We have lots!! Mom has been selling them to different people here and there.

We planted cabbages this year in our garden and they turned out really nice. We had more cabbage then what we hardly knew what to do with. Lets just say we have been eating a lot of it lately! :)

We chopped most of them up and made sauerkraut.

A bumble bee enjoying the flowers in the garden.

The past week has been very dry. The clouds are back now and we are all praying for rain this evening.