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nothing to preserve, nothing to harvest, just
waiting for the next growing season. i gave away some strawberry freezer jam yesterday. might make some beans later this week. this sounds like too much excitement for me. songbird |
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On 12/15/2014 4:57 PM, songbird wrote:
> nothing to preserve, nothing to harvest, just > waiting for the next growing season. > > i gave away some strawberry freezer jam > yesterday. > > might make some beans later this week. > > this sounds like too much excitement for me. > > > songbird > We harvested a double hand full of cherry tomatoes today and then pulled the declining vines. Also picked some spinach leaves to go into a salad plus a few radishes and scallions. Cabbage are headed up so will plan some meals for steamed cabbage. Still have Swiss chard growing in the front flower bed, stuff was planted in the fall of 2013 and is still producing. I cut it about every other week and the new leaves are coming out of the root at the middle. Green peas are about ready to pick a few, probably go into a salad too. 72F here today and overcast, maybe rain tomorrow but no cold in sight so far. Got my new table saw set up properly and have been ripping some melamine on particle board to make extra shelves for the garage cabinets I bought and we put together, going to get a lot of plastic tubs up off the floor and get my "stuff" organized where I don't have to open ten tubs to find one item. Picked the last of the kumquats today and we made about twenty ounces of almost a marmalade, not enough quats to put in a BWB so this little batch will go in the fridge and will be tasty on morning biscuits, bagels, or muffins. Tomorrow we will put up the outside Christmas decorations and will decorate our twenty plus year old fake tree that looks like a real tree and is only three feet tall. <G> Wish I had kept my Mother's fifties aluminum tree, it was easier to put up and had a nice rotating light shedding different colors on the tree. George |
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George Shirley wrote:
.... > looks like a real tree and is only three feet tall. <G> Wish I had kept > my Mother's fifties aluminum tree, it was easier to put up and had a > nice rotating light shedding different colors on the tree. we had one of those. very funny. i don't recall what happened to it, but i do remember spending a fair amount of time under that tree with a flashlight casting sparkles around the walls. songbird |
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In article >, songbird
> wrote: > George Shirley wrote: > ... > > looks like a real tree and is only three feet tall. <G> Wish I had kept > > my Mother's fifties aluminum tree, it was easier to put up and had a > > nice rotating light shedding different colors on the tree. > > we had one of those. very funny. i don't recall > what happened to it, but i do remember spending a > fair amount of time under that tree with a flashlight > casting sparkles around the walls. When I was young, Christmas Eve was the big event on my Mom's side (German). I remember a real tree, in a rotating musical stand, with (wait for it) REAL candles burning. One of the older kids was always in charge of monitoring the candles when they were lit. Obligatory preserving note: Grandma's sauerkraut was always made in big earthenware crocks in the cellar. Best stuff in the world... -- ³Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.² -- Aristophanes |
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