In article >, George Shirley > wrote:
>Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>> In article > ,
>> "Michael \"Dog3\"" > wrote:
>>> I lurk in RFP and the number of posts over there has drastically decreased.
>>> <shrug> I don't know why. Busy time of year I suppose.
>>
>> On the contrary, it's a not-busy time of the year. Most the posters on
>> rec.food.preserving are north americans and for most north americans
>> (George Shirley notwithstanding) the harvesting/food preserving season
>> is past. The low number of posts is nothing new for this time of the
>> year.
>
>Alas and alack, it's over for us too. Picked the last of the cherry
>tomatoes and sweet chiles today, along with a couple of eggplant. Looks
>like we're expecting a hard freeze in the next couple of days.

Fascinating! I picked the last of *my* cherry tomatoes today too (but
I should have done it a week ago . The eggplant (grafted, and now
in its third season) is still bearing, though most of the current crop
is a little distorted for some reason. And my *HOT* birds-eye
chillies are just maturing their latest crop -- the oldest plant is
now four or five years old, and about 10 feet tall!

I should also mention that it has been hot as hell here the past two
weeks or so -- with a seemingly never ending parade of thunderstorms
until today, but bugger all rain right *here* (and up to 124 mm in a
couple of hours a few miles away early one morning a week or so ago).

>Good news is that a friend killed an Axis deer over in Texas the other
>day and we're going to turn the little feller into sausage tomorrow or
>Thursday. Link sausage, 90% venison, 10% pork, then smoked. Should be good.

There are feral deer on a tableland a couple of hours drive south of
here, but I've not heard of much interest in hunting and eating them.
The ecological xenophobes are keen to exterminate them, which would be
somewhat ironic as a deer features on this Ozzie State's coat of arms!
(A hangover from our imperial past as a Pommie colony. :-)

Cheers, Phred.

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