Fun Stuff -in my little world

 Life is not all gloom and doom in the House of Howard.

 About a year and a half ago in the fall my sister-in-law planted 4 little thornless blackberry starts she'd ordered from a plant/seed company.  She wasn't sure if they were going to survive, but she plunked them into the ground and prayed for the best.  She had to make sure they were covered with netting to protect them from the deer and the ground hogs that wander through.  

Last year she got quite a bit off of them, enough to take up some room in her freezer and provide her with a few berry pies over the course of the year.  

Those 4 little canes went crazy, put off all sorts of shoots and they are bearing like they are on fire. Her freezer is as full as it can get and I have over a gallon of them in my fridge that I am going to work up into jelly or jam or preserves of some kind this week. Ha! Two weeks ago I'd put up a couple pints of freezer jam with them. They are starting to slow down a little, but she still picks more every day. She still has to keep them netted over, and that presents issues trying to pick them.  Plus a week ago something got on top of the netting, squashing it all down and breaking some of the canes off.  That was aggravating.

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A neighbor let me know yesterday that their pear trees are going to have a pretty good crop, so if I am on top of things I might be able to put up a few jars of vanilla pear butter.  It is supposed to be jam, but I always seem to get it past the jam stage into butter.  Ha.

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Our onions have been a bumper crop this year too, as they have for several neighbors. Our problem is that I don't really have a good place to cure them, or to store them after they are cured.  I have them draped over boxes out in the car port, with other boxes over them to try and protect them from the sun when it manages to peep in there.  They seem to be doing well.  

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One funny thing happened last week.
We have had so much rain this summer that the grass is growing like crazy; a couple feet tall in some area, especially where there is Johnson grass.

Well, Gary wanted me to help him attach the brush hog to the tractor.  But when I went out to help him, he couldn't find the brush hog.  Ha!  He drove the Mule around and around looking.  Finally we gave up and went back in, speculating if someone had heisted it.

But no, about half hour later he went back out and finally found it; right where he had parked it about a month earlier.  It was just completely camouflaged by tall grass.  

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 I'd better post this now.  I have been working on it for over a week.   

 

 

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Anonymous said…
Do any women wear hose these days? Put an onion in a hose and tie a knot. Put another in and tie a knot, etc. The knot keeps the onions from touching so if one starts to rot it won't ruin the next one. Hang the hose or panty-hose and hope for the best.
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