Back to school
The last few days before school starts, well, it was all a big blur. Although someone may have taken some, it's easiest to admit...there are no photos that I took. It was crazy.
We've been picking an older neighbour's apple tree (and tidying up underneath it) and well, it's a lot of apples. I have an enormous shopping bag of apples left in the fridge, and that is after countless dehydrator apple chip sessions, applesauce, peach-apple jam, a couple of crumbles, and at least an apple a day for everybody. (We have also donated a lot of apples so others might eat them.)
Then, last weekend, we went out to a U-pick vegetable farm, because I needed to make some pickles. I thought I needed maybe 12-15 lbs of cucumbers. I spoke with the farmer, who is also a professor at our Professor's university. I held Sadie the dog's leash. And before I knew it, twins and their professor dad had picked:
Over 40 lbs of cucumbers
a dozen ears of corn
a zucchini the size of a cricket bat
one bright orange winter storage squash
I stopped them right then and there. It's been a lot of putting up since then. I've canned 23 lbs+ of pickles. The rest of those cucumbers also got donated. A family can only eat so many...
While this happened, we prepared for the start of Grade 2!
And, this article ran...(and I missed it entirely, so forgive the delay in mentioning it.)
The benefits from repetition
Soon-- it will be a new year! If you celebrate it, wishing you a very happy and healthy Jewish new year! It's 5779! Now it's back to catching up. Thank goodness for school. :)
We've been picking an older neighbour's apple tree (and tidying up underneath it) and well, it's a lot of apples. I have an enormous shopping bag of apples left in the fridge, and that is after countless dehydrator apple chip sessions, applesauce, peach-apple jam, a couple of crumbles, and at least an apple a day for everybody. (We have also donated a lot of apples so others might eat them.)
Then, last weekend, we went out to a U-pick vegetable farm, because I needed to make some pickles. I thought I needed maybe 12-15 lbs of cucumbers. I spoke with the farmer, who is also a professor at our Professor's university. I held Sadie the dog's leash. And before I knew it, twins and their professor dad had picked:
Over 40 lbs of cucumbers
a dozen ears of corn
a zucchini the size of a cricket bat
one bright orange winter storage squash
I stopped them right then and there. It's been a lot of putting up since then. I've canned 23 lbs+ of pickles. The rest of those cucumbers also got donated. A family can only eat so many...
While this happened, we prepared for the start of Grade 2!
And, this article ran...(and I missed it entirely, so forgive the delay in mentioning it.)
The benefits from repetition
Soon-- it will be a new year! If you celebrate it, wishing you a very happy and healthy Jewish new year! It's 5779! Now it's back to catching up. Thank goodness for school. :)
Labels: apples, canning, grade 2, Jewish Independent, pickles, school, twins, writer's life
posted by Joanne at 9:40 AM
2 Comments:
I'm staggered at the idea of 40 lbs of cucumbers. That's a lot of work. But what a sense of accomplishment for your boys, picking all that produce.
--Alison
Yes, it was a lot of cucumbers! Actually, picking them didn't seem to be hard, sort of like a treasure hunt under the vine leaves. It was a sunny breezy cool day and nobody got tired doing it...but gosh, I am tired from canning it!
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