Home again, Home again.

A trip to Utah to see family? A list of happiness, of course.

• Driving the back roads home from Willard.
• Purchasing an entire *bushel* of peaches. That's roughly 50 pounds.
• And a 1/2 bushel of tomatoes. 
• Chickens in the yard, eggs in the basket.

• Lots of hugs and happiness.
• Grandparents. Old wisdom.
• Family dinner. All my siblings, nephews, parents and even all my grandparents. 14 people full of love, shepherd's pie, hot rolls, fresh cucumber pickles and tomatoes from the garden.
• Canning madness.
•  Spiced Crab Apple Pickles (7 pints)
• Crabby Brine Jelly (4 half pints)
• Roasted Tomato Passata (27 pints and 12 quarts)
• Peach and Wild Plum Jam (21 half pints)
• Halved Peaches in Light Syrup (16 quarts and 13 pints)
• Mom's Pickled Beets (24 pints)
• Just Plain Tomatoes (29 pints)
• Peach Butter (3 pints)
• Yellow Tomato & Lemon Jam (10 half pints)
• Green Tomato Refrigerator Pickles (1 quart and 4 pints)
• Table 1:

• Table 2:

• Jumping on the trampoline with my nephews, playing "Chicken and Bugs." One of us was the chicken chasing/jumping/eating the others (bugs).
• The strange interactions that country living facilitates, like a meeting of neighbors in the dark when someone's cows were on the highway.
• Road trip with parents
• Stories of my lineage
• Siblings.
• Hugs.
• Haircut.
• Realizing that I have a place to call home in two different states.
• Dad's humor.
• Mom's garden. 
• A well-stocked and generous freezer.
• Grandma's cookies.
• Sunday drive with mom to the chokecherry bushes.
• Love.

Just home in general.