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femkes_follies) wrote2009-09-05 10:10 pm
femkes_follies) wrote2009-09-05 10:10 pm
Doings and Goings on - Tree-mendus Fruit!
Somewhat to my surprise (and thanks to a couple of no-shows) today was not too onerous at work. I even had time to snuggle the most mellow orange kitty cat ever. I was thinking maybe he was sick. Now I'm pretty sure he's just a total moosh. Especially for 8 wks old. Anybody need a new baby? He lays on his back, purrs, and licks noses.
Due to being sick yesterday, working today, and the fact that Pammy, Kaleigh, Lisa, Paul, Ingrid, and Rocky were all not going - we skipped Havoc. Instead, we went fruit-picking. 14# of peaches, 3 # of green gage plums, and some heritage apples. Specifically, Duchess of Oldeburg and St. Edmund's Pippin. I restrained myself or I'd have gotten some Damsons and sugar pears, too. Tommorow - canning!! Gotta love Treemendus Fruit orchards. Good stuff. Annoying crowd. Every nationality running around, taking pictures, and generally getting in the way. In addition to not knowing how to pick fruit. (P.S. Fruit that does not come off easily is not ripe. Do not pull so hard that the rest of the rip fruit on that tree fall off - striking other pickers.) They did have cider, and heritage apple cider but it was a little pricey ($7 and $9 a gallon respectively). Maybe another trip. They had Gravensteins, Wolf Rivers, and the ubiquitous, over-sweet, why-do-people-like-these Honey Crisps.
Still trying to scratch my skin off. And wondering what in the bloody blue blazes I could be so allergic to. It must be an ongoing thing to keep up at this level. *help*
Due to being sick yesterday, working today, and the fact that Pammy, Kaleigh, Lisa, Paul, Ingrid, and Rocky were all not going - we skipped Havoc. Instead, we went fruit-picking. 14# of peaches, 3 # of green gage plums, and some heritage apples. Specifically, Duchess of Oldeburg and St. Edmund's Pippin. I restrained myself or I'd have gotten some Damsons and sugar pears, too. Tommorow - canning!! Gotta love Treemendus Fruit orchards. Good stuff. Annoying crowd. Every nationality running around, taking pictures, and generally getting in the way. In addition to not knowing how to pick fruit. (P.S. Fruit that does not come off easily is not ripe. Do not pull so hard that the rest of the rip fruit on that tree fall off - striking other pickers.) They did have cider, and heritage apple cider but it was a little pricey ($7 and $9 a gallon respectively). Maybe another trip. They had Gravensteins, Wolf Rivers, and the ubiquitous, over-sweet, why-do-people-like-these Honey Crisps.
Still trying to scratch my skin off. And wondering what in the bloody blue blazes I could be so allergic to. It must be an ongoing thing to keep up at this level. *help*
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Then there is the new recent variety soon to be a craze. Sweetango. Was in the Press on Sat. I feel sorry for the apple farmers and these craze apples. I mean it's not like in 1 year you are going to get a feasible crop at all from a sapling.
Muffed up my blueberry buckle. Didn't check all the berries I poured into my tin. Sigh one or a couple were moldy, which is what we are now both allergic to.
Soooo, must get more berries.