It's almost Thanksgiving, so it must be time for another Aikido test.  Somehow, every one is longer and tougher than the last.  Here are a couple pictures Kelly took...

I received a special delivery today.  On the side of the box it said...

Click the box to see what's inside.

You might want to start preparing yourself for a Christmas without jam this year.  We made four batches last Saturday, finishing the last one about 8:30pm.  Shut everything down and let it sit to cool off for the night.  The next morning, I started moving pots off the stovetop to make breakfast and found this...

Kelly knew that sugar can etch the glass top, so we had put down a sheet of aluminum foil to protect it from splashing jam.  Turns out, that's even worse.  We had done so last year without incident.  Kelly found the oven manual and it clearly says not to do that.

So, I might have to take the twenty jars of jam to the Farmers' Market and see if I can make enough to pay for the replacement.

Hope you are having a wonderful Strawberry Day! We woke up about 6am so we could get out the door by 7am to get up to Saxon Harbor Berry Farm...

The berries are GREAT this year. Big, juicy, tasty, firm, and ripe...

And irresistible...

Here's the final haul of thirty-six pounds...

Not to mention the bloated bellies.  Kelly took a picture of her gigundo and another large one...

It's now 6:30pm. We've made three batches of jam and are taking a dinner break. More to come later.

It must be spring!  The daffodils are popping up...

The baby chicks arrived today...

And we got a couple inches of snow...

Yay!

Looks like I might be spending some time in Canada.  A restaurant called Boston Pizza might be making a pizza cake...

We went skiing today.  It was in the low 50s, so the snow was pretty slow...

I took some pictures of the snow in the yard the other day.  Here's the roof of the garage with more than a foot of snow still on it...

There's a pile of snow at the end of the driveway that's about 4-5 foot high and about 20 feet deep...

I scooped the snow off the roof of the house a couple times.  It created a 4-5 foot high pile out the front window that the dogs sit on and look in when they want to come in...

It's not St. Stosh's Day yet, but this is pretty close.

Kamil Stoch, born in Zakopane Poland, took gold in both men's individual ski jump events at the Olympics...