A Berry Good Time
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
This past weekend we headed to Riley's Farm (one of my very favorite places to take the kids). It was berry picking time and well I LOVE Blackberries; so off we went! Here is a photolog of our day:

The kids had a blast picking and eating and picking and eating and eating.

Berry basket complete with berry stained fingers.

Mama getting in on some berry picking.
Hey, check out that shirt! It's from The Laughing Clam, an excellent pub in Grants Pass, Oregon. If you are in that area you must eat there. The food is excellent and the service is wonderful. : )
Dada berry picking.

After two baskets had been filled to the brim with Blackberries and Raspberries we headed to the general store to stock up on a few fresh vegetables, a little old fashioned candy and soda pop (bottled of course).

Sweet Lorelai paying homage to one of my favorite tv shows while growing up.
Why it's Little House on the Prairie of course!

After we loaded up the car with all our goodies we headed off to see some animals. Lorelai was very much looking forward to seeing her favorite animal (horse). It was pretty much all she could talk about. I got a bit worried when the area where there are usually horses was empty. Lorelai started to get a little upset when she thought she couldn't see any, but then we spotted some movement in the distance across the dirt road. Horses, hurray!

This horse was very interested in saying hi.

Future Horse trainer!

A horse is a horse of course of course!

We did see other animals too... or shall I say they saw us.
Up close and personal, here we are getting checked out by a goat.

Shear me, spin me, knit me... you know you want to. But watch out I have teeth and I know how to use them!

Ok, Kellen and Mr. Goat... 1, 2, 3, say cheese.

Llama Love

After saying goodbye to all the wonderful animals on the farm we headed back home to enjoy the fruits of our labor.

Berries, Zucchini's, and Cucumbers oh my!

Let the berry eating commence.

They are berry good indeed.

Ok, officially out of berry puns I will end with a non-berry related finish of my newest knitting project off the needles:

We recently upgraded our cell phones which meant, of course, that it was time to knit a new phone cozy.

I designed this myself with the intention of using it as an opportunity to practice doing cables. A big reason why I wanted to learn to knit was so that I could one day make cabled aran sweaters. Now if I only lived in a climate that was well suited to wearing them; oh well why should that stop me? It will give me an excuse to travel to places cold enough to wear them!

I had a few bumps in the road while making this, mostly just underestimating how wide I needed to make it while taking into account how the cable would act on the finished piece (pulling the fabric in). After finishing it did fit my phone, but felt a bit too snug. So, I got practice in picking up stitches along both sides. I added 4 more rows of garter stitch on each side, which made it roomier for my phone. I added a button that I love (which was waiting for the perfect project) and a crocheted chain button closure.

The cable rib pattern I got from the stitch dictionary section of Cables Untangled. A wonderful gift last Christmas from two patrons of my art... Paul and Carol. Thank you so much guys!