Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

[TanksHill]

I wish. I have 3 five gallon buckets of pears to process today. I have a gazillion tons of laundry, normal house chores and garden. Then there is the party prep for dd bday on Sat.

Wanna come help me???

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

hey Java! shake your tail right off that couch! ha!

actually i need to hop-to...i'm totally sucked into my coffee and ...... snuggling Nicholas and me in a sweatshirt! zoikes!

Tanks - thats GREAT about all your pears! i need to check mine - they are getting big. i've got one more round of mater sauce to do. i had a batch that NONE of the top-row jars
sealed and had to redo them. drat.

its totally raining!! blech!!!!!

 

[abifae]

Sloth, hell, I'm about to go back to bed. I took Amira to the vet at 7 am for her teeth cleaning, eating breakfast, and then going to bed til they call me to get her LOL

 

[savingdogs]

I may be going berry picking today or one day this week. I was complaining the berries are not ripe on our mountain yet and so an old friend offered to come get me because she is going picking. I was over her FB descriptions of what she was making with the berries. I need to get more jars to make jam but I can just flash-freeze these, right?

Then I have a couple berry recipes from on here I wanna try. So sloth away, I'll bring the pie tomorrow.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

but I can just flash-freeze these, right?

yep! i find its easiest to pick over them, give them a rinse, then spread them out on a cook tray (lined with parchment or wax paper or anything like that) and then pop them in the freezer until they are frozen. then put them in a bag. this way they are more likely to stay separated then in a big clump. if you just need a handful of berries they are easy peasy to get out of the bag and you dont have to thaw the whole thing.

happy picking!

 

[savingdogs]

That is what I was thinking I would do, too, thanks for confirming it. I've never actually froze them that way so this will be a first. I expect I'll come home all scratched, the thorns on the local berry plants are really nasty and it is waaaaay too hot to wear jeans and long sleeves, so we'll see how I survive this. My friend who is taking me is also disabled so I doubt we will get too wild and crazy. I'm not sure it will be today but it will be one day this week while they are ripe.

My own plants have a ways to go, but I have lots here too. But it will be fun to go see the country and scrounge berries.

 

[AL]

Present and accounted for!
I have been outside in this outrageous weather... it was 62* this morning!!! Yesterday it was pretty cloudy, but cool and windy. This is my kind of weather!

Of course, there is THIS news out there:

A well-defined tropical wave is over the eastern Atlantic close to 700 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, with a closed circulation apparently forming along with increasing thunderstorm activity. A depression appears likely to form within the next couple of days as the system moves westward. It could reach the Leeward Islands by this weekend, but it is too soon to determine what other land areas might eventually be affected.

* Multiple reliable models continue to forecast a closed low to form from a surface trough now over the western Gulf of Mexico. This system could eventually become a tropical cyclone. The low appears likely to form over the southwestern Gulf. In one reliable model scenario, it could eventually affect the U.S., possibly this coming weekend.

Surface trough over Gulf of Mexico behind Lee could eventually lead to another tropical depression or storm

- New depression likely to form in the next couple of days over the tropical eastern Atlantic, could reach Leeward Islands by this weekend



A friend gave me a gallon of muscadine grapes.... YUM YUM. They never make it to the freezer lol

 

[Wifezilla]

Is saying a person is "One Goat Short of a Full Pen" kind of like saying someone is "One French Fry Short of a Happy Meal"?

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

or...

one jar short of a full canner!

http://adventuresinthegoodland.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-jar-short-of-full-canner.html

ha!

ps i cant get the word link thingy to work. zoikes!

 

[savingdogs]

Gosh, I could never barter for stuff, I'm crummy at that.

I like the phrase "not the sharpest tool in the shed" as my favorite insult for a slow person. Not pointin' any tools.....er...fingers.