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Sleeping in Pop-Pop’s boat.

Kelsey and Kevin taking Rayleigh out of the car after arriving home from the hospital.

The boat in our living room waiting for Rayleigh to come home from the hospital with us.

The white polyurethane finish applied. At this point, the boat could actually be launched on a body of water and not sink, since it was built exactly like a production boat would have been, and is watertight.

This is what the boat looked like when the marine varnish was applied to the inside of the boat. The epoxy doesn’t provide any UV protection, which is why the marine varnish is necessary.

Paul sanding one of the coats of epoxy on the boat.

Finished primer coat, ready to be sanded before the polyurethane paint was applied.

The boat needed to be coated inside and out in a couple of coats of clear epoxy. It makes the boat look like it is varnished, but it isn’t. Once it has a full coat of epoxy inside and out, then the whole boat needs to be sanded.

The hull needed to be primed before the final paint could be applied. Two coats of primer needed to be applied, and needed to be sanded flat before the white polyurethane paint could be applied.

We used our composter pretty hard and broke it. Oops!

This is our new solar powered clothes dryer!

Salsa ingredients in the pot before mixing.

Skinning blanched peaches for salsa.

A stack of organic tomatoes for salsa.

When we get our fruits and vegetables home from market, we wash and process most of them right away and store them in airtight containers.

This is the basket we take to market to hold our shopping.

This is the booth for Kilpatrick Family Farms, which is who we have our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share through.

A stack of cucumbers that we used to make kosher dill pickles.

This is what our summer market looks like.

Kelsey de-stemming and washing currants for currant jelly.

Washing blueberries for making blueberry orange jam.

Washed currants, ready for processing into jelly.

In order to make currant jelly, you have to cook and mash the currants, then drain the currant mash overnight in the fridge to extract the juice.

The baby bump at 41 weeks.