We have definitely shifted from Apricot Management to Plum Pickups. It's been raining the past two days, so I NEED to get out there and tidy up once things dry off slightly. The picture shows a day's haul of usable plums. The unusable windfalls went into the compost bucket. (The 30 gallon compost bucket that gets dumped at the town compost heap. I have learned that fruits with pits make wretched compost, especially when a generous quantity of those pits sprout the following spring. It's bad enough having to patrol the yard looking for trees that the squirrels planted without myself planting them in the garden thoughtlessly!)
I've got about 5 quarts of frozen plum halves, just waiting to be used in smoothies, 2 quarts of dried plums, a dozen plums ready to be eaten fresh ... and about as many as there are in the picture, waiting to be picked up. If you're local and want plums, come visit! But keep reading, too.
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| Lunch |
I've been lunching off the yard lately. Two leaves of kale, a sprig of parsley or basil, several plums, ice cubes, and some miscellaneous additives like flax seed and cocoa powder, and I've a delicious lunchy smoothie. I think it also covers my 5 fruits and veggies a day in one container.
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| Tomatoes |
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The tomatoes in the garden had a lovely time of it last week, what with the warm temps and lots of sunshine. (This week, not so much. Drizzly, temps struggling to get to 60 today.) I picked a nice crop on Monday and turned them into tomato sauce. Fourteen pints canned and ready to go for homemade soup in the winter! My favorites are the Black Krim. They make a nice meal all by themselves, too, or perhaps with an ear of corn on the cob from the stand in town.
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| Our sidewalk, Thursday |
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| Our sidewalk, Friday |
Construction work on the sewer/water main improvements is continuing, as well as the weather allows. Last Friday we lost our street. Happily, the driveway is on a different street, so we're not affected much. Bandit doesn't much care for the beeps of the equipment as it back up, and some in the household care even less for the fact that the house shakes as the excavators break up the pavement and scoop nice deep holes out there ... but this too shall pass.
Knitting is going knittily, and biking would be going much better today if it were dry outside. Ten degrees more of warmth would be nice, too. I got myself a bike jersey, just in time for the 80s to become 50s! Argh. And once it hits 60, the winds are supposed to be in the 20s. Planning one's ride out of the wind just does NOT happen on rural roads in corn land.
Enough computer for today ... time to head off and look to the house!
1 comment:
Wind is not a bicyclist's friend. And a Jersey! Oooh, getting serious looking :)
Your tomatoes look lovely. We have had only a few tomatoes yet, mostly just the salad smalls. We usually have to pick them green when the frost comes in Sept. and let them ripen in the garage :( I guess we don't have a long enough season here? Your street looks very soupy. Hope you've got 4 wheel drive so you can play.
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