On Friday I took a couple of helpers and went to pick the remaining
apricots from my sister's backyard tree. It's been a very good year
for them, and we brought home about 70kg. This is in addition to the
50kg that I picked last week for me, the 50kg for my mother, and the
40kg that went to one of my sister's friends.

Even for a big tree, I think that 210kg (~460lb) is pretty impressive.

I'm getting a bit tired of the sight of apricots now. ;-)


BTH

"BT Humble" > wrote in message
...
> On Friday I took a couple of helpers and went to pick the remaining
> apricots from my sister's backyard tree. It's been a very good year
> for them, and we brought home about 70kg. This is in addition to the
> 50kg that I picked last week for me, the 50kg for my mother, and the
> 40kg that went to one of my sister's friends.
>
> Even for a big tree, I think that 210kg (~460lb) is pretty impressive.
>
> I'm getting a bit tired of the sight of apricots now. ;-)
>
>
> BTH


I wish....let me give you my address...I'll take some off your hands...

Kathi, in deep freezing Ontario Canada...where aps sell at a PREMIUM price

<snip> Even for a big tree, I think that 210kg (~460lb) is pretty
impressive. <snip>

Wow, that is impressive.

<snip> I'm getting a bit tired of the sight of apricots now. *;-)
<snip>

I understand--too much of anything, even though a blessing, can be
overwhelming. I get tired of seeing pears when we harvest a bunch--
even a smaller tree full can yield quite a bit. I was given 200
pounds of pears once way back when. They were everywhere in boxes and
I spent weeks sorting them, turning them until they ripened. We ate
as many as we could, gave as many away as we could, froze some, made
pear jelly, pear jam and pear butter.

When the wild dewberries are ready--we have to pick just about
everyday for about 2 weeks straight, even if I don't 'feel' like
going.

We picked wild mustang grapes last year on July 4th--it was hot/humid/
sticky/miserable here in Texas. It was hard work--we'd never make it
if that was how we made our living!!!

Of course, we plan to do it ALL again this year...

I'll bet though that anything you make from those apricots will be oh
so good.

: - )

Kathi Jones wrote:
> I wish....let me give you my address...I'll take some off your hands...
>
> Kathi, in deep freezing Ontario Canada...where aps sell at a PREMIUM price

Hey, at least you don't have to drive 200km to go skiing (and we can
only do that for 3 months of the year).


BTH

"BT Humble" > wrote in message
...
> Kathi Jones wrote:
>> I wish....let me give you my address...I'll take some off your hands...
>>
>> Kathi, in deep freezing Ontario Canada...where aps sell at a PREMIUM
>> price
>
> Hey, at least you don't have to drive 200km to go skiing (and we can
> only do that for 3 months of the year).
>
>
> BTH

true, at it would be great...if I skii'd ....

lol

I'd take aps over snow anyday!!

Kathi

Kathi Jones wrote:
> "BT Humble" > wrote in message
>
> > Kathi Jones wrote:
> >> I wish....let me give you my address...I'll take some off your hands....
>
> >> Kathi, in deep freezing Ontario Canada...where aps sell at a PREMIUM
> >> price
>
> > Hey, at least you don't have to drive 200km to go skiing (and we can
> > only do that for 3 months of the year).
>
> > BTH
>
> true, at it would be great...if I skii'd *....
>
> lol
>
> I'd take aps over snow anyday!!
>
> Kathi

There's just no pleasing some people! ;-)


BTH

Kathi Jones wrote:
> I'd take aps over snow anyday!!

I picked some peaches this afternoon (see bottom pic):

http://www.humbletown.org/preserving/index.htm


BTH

BT Humble wrote:
> Kathi Jones wrote:
>> I'd take aps over snow anyday!!
>
> I picked some peaches this afternoon (see bottom pic):
>
> http://www.humbletown.org/preserving/index.htm
>
>
> BTH
You sure are lucky to have so many folks willing to share plus the
roadside trees.

Unfortunately we live in Louisiana, USA, the state sprays the roadsides
with herbicides, killing weeds, trees, and everything that grows. The
few roadside fruit trees I've found have been pear or plum and were
killed by the spraying.

We do have a friend with a large and fecund pear tree, plus a Japanese
persimmon tree, and many hundreds of feet of three different muscadine
(native grape) vines. He's willing to give us all we want to bother with
for a small share of the jams, jellies, and preserves we produce.

Maybe, if we cross our fingers and toes our fruit trees, blueberry
bushes, and blackberry vines will produce this year. The only thing we
get a lot of are lemons and kumquats.

"BT Humble" > wrote in message
...
> Kathi Jones wrote:
>> I'd take aps over snow anyday!!
>
> I picked some peaches this afternoon (see bottom pic):
>
> http://www.humbletown.org/preserving/index.htm
>
>
> BTH

show offf!!

George Shirley wrote:
> You sure are lucky to have so many folks willing to share plus the
> roadside trees.
>
> Unfortunately we live in Louisiana, USA, the state sprays the roadsides
> with herbicides, killing weeds, trees, and everything that grows. The
> few roadside fruit trees I've found have been pear or plum and were
> killed by the spraying.

I can remember back when I was a lad the local Shire Council (roughly
similar to a county I think) would send their weed-spraying buy out on
a mission against rodside fruit trees, but the last time I can recall
it happening was at least 20 years ago. They *do* still spray along
the sides of the road, but only spot-spraying of what have been
declared to be "noxious weeds".

But yes, I agree that I'm fortunate to live in such a place. When I
was riding my motorcycle around north-west Queensland in 2002 they
would commonly use a grader to scrape away all the vegetation for
about 30' to either side of the road. I don't know what that was for,
but clearly they meant it. ;-)

> We do have a friend with a large and fecund pear tree, plus a Japanese
> persimmon tree, and many hundreds of feet of three different muscadine
> (native grape) vines. He's willing to give us all we want to bother with
> for a small share of the jams, jellies, and preserves we produce.
>
> Maybe, if we cross our fingers and toes our fruit trees, blueberry
> bushes, and blackberry vines will produce this year. The only thing we
> get a lot of are lemons and kumquats.

I just returned from visiting my auntie in the old folk's home, and
she said that several of her friends are keen to work on some
preserved fruit again (probably because of the bag of peaches I gave
them this morning). I've already identified another unpicked backyard
apricot tree in the neighbourhood, but it'll have to wait until
Tuesday (Monday is the Australia Day public holiday, and the owners
aren't at home).


BTH

Kathi Jones wrote:
> "BT Humble" > wrote in message
>
> > Kathi Jones wrote:
> >> I'd take aps over snow anyday!!
>
> > I picked some peaches this afternoon (see bottom pic):
>
> >http://www.humbletown.org/preserving/index.htm
>
> show offf!!

You might want to have a look he

http://www.qantas.com.au/

CAN$1997 and by Wednesday afternoon you can be sitting at my kitchen
table slicing peaches too! :-D


BTH

BT Humble wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>> You sure are lucky to have so many folks willing to share plus the
>> roadside trees.
>>
>> Unfortunately we live in Louisiana, USA, the state sprays the roadsides
>> with herbicides, killing weeds, trees, and everything that grows. The
>> few roadside fruit trees I've found have been pear or plum and were
>> killed by the spraying.
>
> I can remember back when I was a lad the local Shire Council (roughly
> similar to a county I think) would send their weed-spraying buy out on
> a mission against rodside fruit trees, but the last time I can recall
> it happening was at least 20 years ago. They *do* still spray along
> the sides of the road, but only spot-spraying of what have been
> declared to be "noxious weeds".
>
> But yes, I agree that I'm fortunate to live in such a place. When I
> was riding my motorcycle around north-west Queensland in 2002 they
> would commonly use a grader to scrape away all the vegetation for
> about 30' to either side of the road. I don't know what that was for,
> but clearly they meant it. ;-)
>
>> We do have a friend with a large and fecund pear tree, plus a Japanese
>> persimmon tree, and many hundreds of feet of three different muscadine
>> (native grape) vines. He's willing to give us all we want to bother with
>> for a small share of the jams, jellies, and preserves we produce.
>>
>> Maybe, if we cross our fingers and toes our fruit trees, blueberry
>> bushes, and blackberry vines will produce this year. The only thing we
>> get a lot of are lemons and kumquats.
>
> I just returned from visiting my auntie in the old folk's home, and
> she said that several of her friends are keen to work on some
> preserved fruit again (probably because of the bag of peaches I gave
> them this morning). I've already identified another unpicked backyard
> apricot tree in the neighbourhood, but it'll have to wait until
> Tuesday (Monday is the Australia Day public holiday, and the owners
> aren't at home).
>
>
> BTH
>
We've got a neighbor, about two blocks away, with a nice orange tree
that he doesn't pick. Unfortunately he also doesn't want anyone else to
pick it. His excuse is that his wife likes the blooms or he would cut it
down. I think he's just a curmudgeon. He just rakes the fallen oranges
into a pile, bags them and puts them in the trash can. What a waste,
some previous resident probably planted that lovely tree and now it is
being wasted.

I've noted that syndrome among many of my younger neighbors, they would
rather buy fruit at the market rather than harvest and use the ones on
their trees.

BT Humble wrote:
> Kathi Jones wrote:
>> "BT Humble" > wrote in message
>>
>>> Kathi Jones wrote:
>>>> I'd take aps over snow anyday!!
>>> I picked some peaches this afternoon (see bottom pic):
>>> http://www.humbletown.org/preserving/index.htm
>> show offf!!
>
> You might want to have a look he
>
> http://www.qantas.com.au/
>
> CAN$1997 and by Wednesday afternoon you can be sitting at my kitchen
> table slicing peaches too! :-D
>
>
> BTH
Be careful what you say, we've some folks on this newsgroup who not only
love to preserve nature's bounty they love to travel.

"BT Humble" > wrote in message
...
> Kathi Jones wrote:
>> "BT Humble" > wrote in message
>>
>> > Kathi Jones wrote:
>> >> I'd take aps over snow anyday!!
>>
>> > I picked some peaches this afternoon (see bottom pic):
>>
>> >http://www.humbletown.org/preserving/index.htm
>>
>> show offf!!
>
> You might want to have a look he
>
> http://www.qantas.com.au/
>
> CAN$1997 and by Wednesday afternoon you can be sitting at my kitchen
> table slicing peaches too! :-D
>
>
> BTH


oh, now you're just teasing me!!!

those would end up being some very pricy peaches!!

K

"George Shirley" > wrote in message
...
> BT Humble wrote:
>> Kathi Jones wrote:
>>> "BT Humble" > wrote in message
>>>
>>>> Kathi Jones wrote:
>>>>> I'd take aps over snow anyday!!
>>>> I picked some peaches this afternoon (see bottom pic):
>>>> http://www.humbletown.org/preserving/index.htm
>>> show offf!!
>>
>> You might want to have a look he
>>
>> http://www.qantas.com.au/
>>
>> CAN$1997 and by Wednesday afternoon you can be sitting at my kitchen
>> table slicing peaches too! :-D
>>
>>
>> BTH
> Be careful what you say, we've some folks on this newsgroup who not only
> love to preserve nature's bounty they love to travel.

heeheeheeee....

George Shirley wrote:
> Be careful what you say, we've some folks on this newsgroup who not only
> love to preserve nature's bounty they love to travel.

This time of year, I'll take any help that's offered! ;-)


BTH

You wouldn't believe it, but last night I found a neighbour a couple
of blocks away with a well-loaded apricot tree in the backyard. ;-)


BTH

> I'm getting a bit tired of the sight of apricots now. ;-)

Fresh apricots...... Imagine. Thanks for the thought, last week it
was in the low -30's. Just the thought of fresh apricots warmed my
blood by a couple degrees.

Railfanner wrote:
>> I'm getting a bit tired of the sight of apricots now. ;-)
>
> Fresh apricots...... Imagine. Thanks for the thought, last week it was
> in the low -30's. Just the thought of fresh apricots warmed my blood by
> a couple degrees.
>


It was 76 degrees F. today in Denver. The buds are popping
into bloom
on our apricot trees. It figures--it's supposed to snow
tomorrow.

Mother nature does that to us 9 years out of 10.

:-(

gloria p