It has been a long time since my last blog. A lot has been going on at the Bessette home!

The flowers are blooming....Iris are showing off,




the Roses are magnificent!




We have picked our first strawberries and sugar-snap-peas! Alex, the child least likely to eat anything green, said "Mom, if other vegetables tasted like these sugar-snap-peas, I would eat them all the time...are there more growing!" The cabbage is heading-up! Kenebec potatoes have sprouted up beautifully, only to freeze on 2 occasions...not sure if they'll make it. I have learned to wait on the tomatoes, until after Mother's Day...finally got them planted yesterday and I even have the trellises in place for each plant! We've been enjoying spinach several days/week. We must cut it frequently, or it will quickly bolt to flowers/seed. The spinach is delicious...have you ever noticed the weird film/feeling that store-bought spinach leaves on your teeth? I am pleased to report that our home-grown spinach does not have it!

Cilantro is ready to be picked...I love to make salsa, but cilantro is an herb which doesn't like hot dry weather. Because of this, it is ready before the tomatoes and jalapenos are ripe??? Oh well, I'll still make salsa, cuz' there's nothing like fresh cilantro!




Boer/Keiko buck for market-goat project in 4-H are growing steadily.

Nellysford Farmer's Market began May 1st. We are there faithfully every week selling fresh made wheat bread, French bread, Rye bread, cinnamon buns, coffee, eggs/pasta/cookies and mint tea...what a great market! Our Fridays are busy with baking. The kids are selling their products too!


Today was a rainy day and it was nice to be able to spend time indoors with the girls. We are reading aloud, "The Lord God Made Them All" by James Herriot. It is very informative and entertaining. We have laughed so hard we cried in several chapters! I still love reading aloud to the family...they love it too...always begging for just one more chapter! I recently asked our oldest child if she would read aloud to her children...she said she would, but still expected me to read to her, even when grown! I have very special memories of the many, many books our family has enjoyed together.

Well, tommorrow is baking day...busy busy!

I hope Austyn will take some pictures to "document" the home-bakery! It is quite an operation!