We had very high winds today, thankfully they didn't start until after our walk. One good thing about them is they keep the bugs away when working outside.

Between the wind and the cooler temps this morning, John thought it was a good time to get back up to Matt's and finish splitting the wood he left there and haul it home.  Everything he had cut and split is now home and unloaded onto the wood pile.

Woodshed is full to the top

 

 New woodpile stacked between trees

Second row has been started

While John was gone doing wood, I got started on the laundry and cut up the strawberries he picked this morning and got them ready for another batch of jam.  This afternoon we made the last batch and now have about a dozen jars of strawberry jam.  Next we start on raspberry jam as soon as they ripen.  Those bushes are full of berries--should be a bumper crop of raspberries this year.

 

 The first two batches of jam

The repair shop in Clearbook called and said the tiller was ready to go, so after supper John went and picked it up and when he got home, tilled the garden.  With the warm weather and rain showers the weeds were beginning to get out of hand.  I took the camera and walked around the property taking a few photos.  Found these little butterflies all over the ground by the pond.  They were only about 1 inch long.  Experimented with my telephoto lens and managed to get this pic.  Might enter this in this summer's fair.