Up and drinking coffee

It was long night, so I'm not really sure why I'm awake. I've actually been awake since before seven. Cy is cutting teeth, and wanted to nurse all night long. To the point that I was begging her to take her water bottle and roll over. To which she cried, and yanked at my shirt until I gave up. Then I woke up this morning with a need to escape the bed, and come down stairs for some alone time before I face the day. I love to sleep in, but this is pretty nice too. Actually I should go see why Karl is still in bed. He's playing golf today after work. He and his friends found a place where they can use the driving range, and play half the course for six bucks. He hasn't golfed since high school or maybe freshman year of college, so that should be plenty. Opps! He's up!

I'm almost done rereading one of my books so I can write a decent report on it. My last one was pretty slim, but I found the book lacking in what I was looking for out of it. This one I actually like, and find myself pulling it out pretty often. It will also be going with me to births for awhile, since it has a nice cheap sheet on different labor and birth positions. I know that I'll probably not pull it out since most of them are really ingrained in my head (Like another million birth facts and figures), but it makes me feel better to know it's in there! I also have a few of my other assignments that are half done. Mostly because they business growing stuff, and within the next two years what I don't have done at this moment I will need to at some point. There are some other assignments though that look like tons of fun, but I need a quite day at the book store or library to work on them. Reading and some computer work I can get done at home. The actual writing that takes real train of thought, and the ability to proof read... Ha! Although as I'm sitting here in the nice quite of morning. I'm really considering getting up at six to get stuff done. The bonus of working at a public place is that when you have a stack of birth books people ask what your doing.

I'm not sure I'll get the time this weekend though. Tomorrow we will be fruit picking. We were planning on getting strawberries this weekend for both preserves and wine. I didn't make strawberry preserves last year. I made peach, blueberry, and apple butter. I thought I still had plenty of peach, but when I went downstairs to grab more I realized I only had three jars left. So we'll be getting peaches this year as well. I'm not sure if Karl wants them for wine or not. I do know that he is taking the last week of June off, and has plans to get a bunch of wine started. We currently have last year's apples juiced and frozen, dandelion flowers frozen, and lilac flowers frozen. All are just waiting for their time. With fruit season here already it's time to get moving! We seem to go through what Karl makes really fast, but Karl makes small batches and what we don't serve to family and friends we give away. I'm also considering making extra batches of preserves and putting them up for sale online. I'll stash the money for our farm fund. We'll see if I get that ambitious though. I should have a good deal of veggies to put up this summer too. I'm going to try really hard to get over to my Dad's house when he cans to tomato based sauces and get family recipes. They aren't gettable over the phone, because none of them are written down!

Cy is awake. My time is up.