cleaning up branches and making salsa

A lot of branches came off the pine trees, probably in those last heavy snowstorms a few weeks ago.

Okay, this is a sight I didn't want to see:  Him, way up in a tree.  He's trying to figure out how to get a branch down that's hung up on other branches.   Nobody wants that to come falling down later on a car or a person.

It took a little fiddling around, but they did get it.

Kari made some workbooks for them. 

 Here they are making Kirsten's fabulous salsa.  It's so good a person could eat nothing else, ever.  That whole blue bowl was pretty much gone by the end of the day.   I laughed about Marge Simpson on the cupboard there. 

Why is she there?

Nobody knows.

It's a dark, rainy Tuesday, and I wish we were all at the lake eating salsa.     love, Mom