What you see before you is the largest container of strawberries to ever enter my kitchen at one time. If I had to guess, its about 30 pounds. The bowl is 6 gallons. It took me an hour and a half to pick them. I have used 4cups for a double batch of strawberry rhubarb crisp. I am sending one of them to Dr. Joe's parents in the Cities. I will eat the other, maybe even before Mike gets home from work.
The couple pictured with the Beasties are John and JoLynn Goeman. They have been building and maintaining a reserve for wood ducks on their land at Lake Madison. He was kind enough to give us a tour on a day off of school. They do this for the love of the wildlife and support it solely on their own. To thank him for the tour the kids and I got a wood duck house and I burned a thank you into the side of it along with a picture of a wood duck. I did my best with the drawing. Katie wasn't so happy for the picture. It takes a good man to put up with the Beasties for a whole morning.
Here are the Beasties at the lake. They needed a beach day. It may look over cast. Its 85 degrees. Thats South Dakota for you.
