I hope all of you are having a great start to your Tuesday morning and I really hope that you can manage to wrangle a few days off to celebrate the founding of our great nation.
Not much goings-on around here except pulling in (and putting up) whatever nature’s bounty provides. I was able to get 3 quarts of blackberries from the neighbors place and picked enough cuc’s to can six pints of pickles. This pickle run was mostly small (length and width of a thumb). These are a great change of pace when the ‘eatn’ begins. Of course they were pickled with jalapeno’s, peppercorn, and cracked red pepper (dehydrated cayenne peppers).
I used Google Earth to get a rough estimate on how far I was walking to harvest blackberries; it was two miles straight line distance (albeit not in a straight line). It’s probably double that when you account for walking into and out of the wood line.
I’m off to the store this morning to pickup canning supplies: quart jars, vinegar, lemon juice, olive oil, pectin, peppercorn, and pine nuts are all needed. While it’s 25 miles each way to the store, and most of those miles are on back roads, I really don’t mind that much. Before I retired I was traveling 50 miles each way from here to Huntsville AL for work . Because the trip is along country roads (for the most part) the slow going allows me to peek into the backyard of folks and see if they have a garden in and how it’s doing.
Anyway, got to get up and get about my day. Have a great week and be safe over the holiday.