We have sadly cruised past strawberry and raspberry season here, and are now just on the cusp of peach season. I ate my way through most of my peach stores (I have 2 quarts left, no peach jam, and one pint of peach syrup remaining), so I am hoping it is a solid peach season. I want to put up about 60 quarts for myself and friends and mom and dad.
After that, pears, and on to apples.
While I am sad the strawberries and raspberries are gone, I really do enjoy the seasons and eating what is ripe and locally available, because they are so good the memory of them sustains me through the winter. Next year’s strawberries will be here before I know it, and I have my stock of preserves to hold me until then.
Baud
I read that in Wilfred Brimley’s voice.
Omnes Omnibus
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud:
Good call.
raven
56 days till Georgia-Clemson!!!
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: You need to go fishing or something.
dww44
@Omnes Omnibus: It so happens the weather here is miserable for fishing even. At least it would be for me. But, hey, it’s just the tropical moisture that decided it wanted to linger, even though TS Elsa scooted on out of here. I’m not complaining mind you. We have plenty of water, everything is green and the temps are hovering around 90 for a high. Entirely bearable for mid July.
NotMax
Fruit, fruit, fruit and more fruit. Followed by fruit.
Henceforth shall ye be known throughout the realm as John “Bowels of Steel” Cole.
:)
L85NJGT
Plant some Primocane varieties, and you’ll get two crops; summer and fall.
Omnes Omnibus
@dww44: I spent time in southern Georgia in the summer. I have no desire to go back. It wasn’t bad in December though.
James E Powell
@NotMax:
You tell the nicest stories.
Another Scott
Fruit is good. But don’t overdo it. Moderation in all things – even moderation. ;-)
ObOpenThread: ICYMI…
Thread
It’s what they do.
We don’t have to play along with them trying desperately to turn “the controversy about c-r-t” into a thing.
Forward!!
(via darth)
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
ObOpenThread – ProPublica:
Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
debbie
@Another Scott:
Too late! I’m eating black raspberries like there’s no tomorrow.
pat
Is anyone watching Rachell Maddow?
We are already almost too late to rescue the translators who helped us in Afghanistan…
DHS and the State Dept. are against it.
Why is Biden not involved in getting these people OUT?
Another Scott
ObOpenThread – ScienceMag:
Neato.
There’s always stuff to learn, and always ways to apply that new knowledge.
Cheers,
Scott.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Almost 10:15 PM, and some fucktard is out mowing. The sound goes through my spine.
dww44
@Omnes Omnibus: I remember one Christmas Day back in the mid 80s we visited bil who lived on the south side of Atlanta in a house with a couple of other guys, one of whom was from Minnesota. He came out of the house on that bright mild sunny morning and jumped for joy. Couldn’t believe it was Christmas!
StringOnAStick
My main canning activity is making chutney from an old recipe; it’s useful in so many ways. One of the main ingredients is apples, so thankfully I’ll be making it as fall approaches. I served it to a Nepali visitor once and he deemed it worthy.
I discovered our new home has 3 blueberry bushes, but two of them were in too much shade to bloom or produce, so I moved them to beside the one that’s loaded with developing berries and built and installed a mason bed house with them. I just finished building a low retaining wall around them and the rest of that mounded bed, which will be the veggie garden next year. Next is getting a huge amount of compost delivered because the existing soil is basically sand with nearly zero organic content, followed by an equally huge delivery of coarser compost to use as garden mulch. I’m making good progress so I do think I’ll be ready to plant the rest of the landscape next spring, natives, water wise plants, and zero lawn.
cope
What, no rhubarb? Down here in The Mildew State, where it doesn’t grow, we only have it available in stores for a couple of weeks and they have passed for this year. Sad.
Omnes Omnibus
@dww44: Winter is supposed to be snowy and cold.
Gvg
I have never had much luck growing fruit although I am getting some blackberries this year, but this spring I had more broccoli than I ever have grown before and still have lots frozen. Last year it was green beans, this year no luck.
most of the squash and tomatoes have rotted. We went from dry to monsoon for weeks now and things that have never had problems are dying from too much rain. Every year is different. The orange trees are getting bigger. My parents grapefruit always produces more than we can eat or give away and their orange trees are usually over productive. I give them away at work. I did want some squash, but I guess not this year.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Still mowing. I want to go and shoot his lawnmower. Wife is now wavering on her formerly firm resolve on whether or not to allow me to go shoot his lawnmower.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
I think it should be Alice Waters.
Omnes Omnibus
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I am not licensed in your state so feel free to take this with a grain of salt – rather than shooting his lawnmower, consider a dog crap trebuchet as a decorating tool.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
An energetic Julia Child.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Omnes Omnibus:
I like it – I can definitely locate some dog crap for loading.
Still mowing.
trollhattan
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
The good news: mowing will be followed by a two-stroke leaf blower for 17 minutes.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@trollhattan:
Followed by 40 minutes of chainsaw use.
ian
@Another Scott:
That’s some scary sh*t right there. Reading that article made me sick. The article says discussions are still allowed about race/racism/privilege, yet then proceeds to show that even trying to talk about it (in a class called contemporary issues none the less) will result in your firing.
A shot over the bow to all teachers in Tennessee. Don’t even bring it up if you want to keep your jobs.
Another Scott
More from ScienceMag:
A thoughtful piece that shows, yet again, the past isn’t even past…
Cheers,
Scott.
Mary G
This year I decided to spend however much it costs to get Rainier cherries. Not even sure I like the taste as much as I love Bing cherries, but they look so beautiful with the mix of colors. I got my fifth half pound today and ate some slowly smiling. Then I had dark chocolate. Now for regular dinner.
randy khan
I find I never get sad about the passing of one fruit season from spring through summer because I’m always excited about the next one.
dexwood
@Baud: I took my dog to meet his new vet today and he looks like Wilfred Brimley. The vet, not the dog. The dog looks like Gabby Hayes.
Mousebumples
We’ve had tons of rain this week in Wisconsin and my raspberries are getting nice and ripe. Maybe I’ll have some to pick tomorrow…?
dww44
@Omnes Omnibus: Cold we get, snow not so much. That Minnesota young man leaped for joy, though. So for him, it was a pleasant change. For all I know he may have returned to the world of snow and cold.
Anoniminous
@Another Scott:
Craniometry is pre-scientific balderdash – right up there with Phrenology – primarily used throughout its history to justify racism.
Steeplejack
Chinatown (1974) starting now on TCM. Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston. Oscar to Robert Towne’s screenplay. But directed by the universally reviled Roman Polanski.
Amir Khalid
@Anoniminous:
GIve those skulls a respectful disposal such as any human remains deserve.
Kattails
@Mary G: I just want to paint them, they’re so beautiful! Like British artist Pamela Kay—drat, can’t see how to link from the iPad. She’s in her 80’s and has adored painting the fruits of the seasons for many years. One of my inspirations. Sees such things as jewels.
Benw
@dexwood: interesting coincidence, I had two Butthole Surfers songs come up in my shuffle today!
Jay
@Gvg:
here, if one can, we “tarp shelter” tomatoes, squashes, etc, because of dusty mold, VHF and of course, unpredictable downpours, so we can control the amount of water, and minimize ground splash that kicks the endemic spores up onto the plants.
The “pop up” white shelters seem to work best as in the fall, you can clean them off, fold them up and stuff them away for next year.
Jay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Drone, remote claw, lawn dart or finned or feathered sharpened rebar. Dropped from over 100 feet.
He will never hear it, see it, coming or going.
Plus it could become a fun hobby.
Anonymous At Work
Sadly for Cole, “Canning Addicts Anonymous” turns up a lot of sexual addiction groups and one SD Narcotics Anonymous. Nothing to help him…you know, after the spiced apple rings get canned…
way2blue
My aunt, who lived in Wenatchee, used to put up cherries. My mom put up rhubarb. Stewed rhubarb over vanilla ice cream. Yum!