A friend from church is a master gardener and invited us to the Bellevue Harvest Festival, which is a celebration of all the great food that is grown and donated to charity.

Even though it rained most of the time, we spent a couple of hours sampling food and walking through the gardens. There was a potato counting contest. Two sets of potatoes were grown in containers and you had to submit your guess of the count and weight of potatoes contained in each. All the adults guessed high…4 pounds, 6 pounds, even 12 pounds. Mason said, “um, one pound and um, two pounds.” Kenzie marked her own as “1.5 pounds and 2.5 pounds.”

When it came time for them to harvest potatoes, guess who were front and center. Soon they had the tools out of the hands of the master gardeners and were helping in full stride.

Turns out that there weren’t too many potatoes in either bin, so both Kenzie and Mason won one of the contests! So, we went home with about three pounds of potatoes, a nice mix of reds and purples.

In celebration, we all helped make a yummy vegetable soup for dinner. Mason scrubbed veggies, Cindy and Kenzie diced, then Kenzie and I cooked. It was a fun family event. Every once in a while we realize that it’s sometimes nice to slow down a bit. Maybe I’m just trying to settle into the fact that summer is almost over and the rain is coming, like it or not!

# posted by Julie : 10:21 PM