Jason has been harvesting many veggies from our little garden. I took the last of the rhubarb today. I am flirting with the idea of making a jar or two of pickled okra. I'll keep you posted on how that goes. Otherwise we had asparagus beans (they get like a foot long - no joke!), yellow squash, zucchini, okra, peas, tomoatoes (not ripe yet) and several types of peppers.
WE passed Marisa's class. Lets just say she squeaked by with an acceptable grade. If it weren't for Jason catching all of my mistakes, I am not confident what the outcome would have been. Next class (#4 for those keeping count) starts on September 1st. I'm excited to get started....I guess.
Joel (the Cookie Monster) Cook made his inagural voyage to Des Moines. His first visit ever to the McIlravy home. Joel claims there will be more visits in the future. Now only if we could convince him to move here....
Steve and Twilla (Marisa's parents) were here for the weekend. The four of us jumped into the car and headed for the dry run of John Deere's product introduction. It is place where dealers gather once a year to learn more about the Ag and Turf products that are becoming available this year. Since it was so close this year, employess from the Des Moines area were invited to a dry run of the opening evening. Joel joined us and was amazed at the level of effort and quality of the show. I told him we were John Deere and he should expect nothing but the best! We had a great time. Joel was blown away by the size and power of the equipment. Check out a picture of him UNDER his favorite (of course it helps that Jason helped design it).
