We spent a long weekend camping near beautiful Capital Reef National Park.

Oh, how I love my home state of Utah.

We stayed in one of our favorite cool, high-mountain, pine-shaded campgrounds.  It was out of the heat and perfect for relaxing.

My sweet husband got to try out a nap in the hammock we gave him for Father’s Day. It was quite relaxing, right until he was invaded by a couple of 10 year olds.

We hiked through the beautiful, but hot desert to an oasis waterfall…

and cooled off by having a wonderful swim.

We saw beautiful red rock cliffs and amazing petroglyphs.

But no matter how much I love to explore, there is nothing quite so nice as coming home.

Even when home means a mountain of red dirt stained, fishy, dirty laundry.

It’s been such a hot, dry, hard summer.

But despite that, there is always sweetness to be found.  Like in this box of apricots that came from a friend yesterday.

I’ll be putting up a batch of apricot jam this afternoon.  And eating the rest.

Are you tired of my Farmer’s Wife blocks?  I hope not.  Because I love making them.

I even have new wind in my sails after I raided my mom’s fabric stash.  She has some oldies, but goodies.  By old, I mean like 10 – 15 years old ; ).

This is block # 71 Puss in the Corner.

This is block #81 Snowball.

Speaking of sweetness, I just couldn’t let a package of blackberries go to waste yesterday.  So pulled out our ice cream maker and made Blackberry Frozen Custard with my son.  Isn’t it nice to have someone to help stir the custard?

I served it up with store bought crunchy Swedish ginger snaps.  It was a match made in heaven.