We are being overrun with veggies from our garden...we love it! We can't miss a day of going out to the garden and picking the new stuff otherwise we end up with enormous zuchinis and yellow squash. Which are not as tasty. Mat's been busy chopping them up and putting them in our freezer. I've cut down our basil bushes and made up 4 batches of pesto to freeze and I still have basil leaves left to either dry or make more pesto! We have started making lots of salsa with our tomatoes and our banana peppers. We are also dehydrating our tomatoes and then we are going to freeze them. We are stoked that the manure investment seems to be paying off in our garden this year...oh yeah, and the rain definitely helps!
At the end of June, we went to Roan Mountain to check out the flame azalea and rhododendron blooms. We were a little late. But we had a great time watching the sun set and eating cheese and crackers!
We did see a bunch of beautiful and rare gray's lilies.
A couple of days later at work, I found out that if we'd only gone into the actual state park we would have seen a ton or the rhododendron and flame azaleas blooming! A visitor was telling me how on Friday (we went on Saturday) they'd gone to Roan Mountain and it was so beautiful and they showed me some pictures otherwise I wouldn't have believed them. And then they told me that it was up the road from where we went...we never even thought of going there. We like our jaunt up on the Tennessee/NC border! Next time, we'll have to do both!
Last weekend, we went biking down the Laurel Creek trail and enjoyed swimming in the Laurel River and jumping off rocks! We chose a nice spot to have lunch where there were some waterfalls and cascades and we could basically sit right on a rock in the river. It was sweet! When we finished up lunch we saw a family of four tubing through the rapids above us and we actually thought the cascades/waterfall that we were at were pretty big, so we waved to the family and the dad checked it out and picked a route and he floated on down it and then the mom floated and she only lost her hat, and then the boy went. He looked about 10 years old! The little girl didn't go instead she through sticks for Maddy to get! When the dad offered us his tube, we couldn't say no. So we both got to float the rapid section...it was awesome. So now, we are hoping next weekend will be HOT and we are gonna tube the whole length. Yippee! We are searching for tubes with handles...
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