abundance

My Sweetie --- he is sooooo sweet...

He came in the door Saturday night, at 5 o'clock,

with 32 QUARTS of strawberries

and one angel food cake...

So the ratio of strawberries to cake is a little skewed...

Aren't they beautiful???

And truth to be told,

I had a call asking if I wanted these gorgeous red Ohio berries,

so I knew they were coming.

Really not Sweetie's fault at all. 

The angel food cake though? 

That was Sweetie's fault. 

It's a good problem, isn't it?

Too many strawberries?

So a few hours later,

we (translate I) 

had "farmed out" half of the berries to a neighbor,

cleaned berries and dropped into quart bags for freezing,

made jam,

and made a shortcake. 

And, no, I really didn't need

the shortcake on top of the angel food cake,

but I like the angel food, and Sweetie likes the shortcake. 

And since he was kind enough to make the strawberry run,

I thought I would make him the shortcake

in my spare time,
in the midst of cleaning and prepping berries.

(but really, making the shortcake fit perfectly into the middle of stirring a batch of jam!)

So, by 8:30 p.m.

there were nine and a half quarts of jam

sitting pretty on the butcher block,

forty-eight cups of frozen berries,

and a good sized bowl of berries lightly sugared for eating. 

Soon, I was sitting in my chair, with my feet up,

eating a bowl of berries and a little slice of angel food cake,

while Sweetie was eating a bowl of shortcake

drenched with strawberries,

that was then drenched with milk. 

There was more than a little slurping going on in here, I can tell you. 

The moral of the story? 

Don't turn down 32 quarts of strawberries

at 5 o'clock on a Saturday night!

You don't know what abundance you're missing if you do!!!