My husband Fino and I must have shared some cosmic waves today. We both had strawberries on the brain. When I arrived home tonight from the office, he and the girls were checking out our strawberry plants in the garden. It turns out we have a bunch of strawberries in our own yard!

So much for having to go to the u-pick farm after all. We've never had more than a few handfuls of berries from our garden before; of course the addition of the fence to keep the chickens out of the patch probably helped. And the fact that the plants are three years old and have sprawled. But there aren't many plants and we didn't even pick them clean yet.

So maybe we'll hit the beach tomorrow instead of our original u-pick farm trip. The girls are interested in finding sea glass, a new idea that's captured their interest...