What goofy weather for N Ca. We had a half an inch of rain at the beginning of the week, unheard of for June in our desert climate. Temperature is going to be over 100 F for the weekend. Fortunately I can go home tomorrow and get ready to set the hose on drip and just move it around all weekend.
I took a flat of the first apricots and plums to the Food Pantry in the next town over on my way out of town yesterday. They evidently had to move on short notice, so I had to go find the new place or keep a flat of fruit in my trunk for a few days (EEEK!). They are clearly scrambling to keep the door open, which is too bad because there are always lots of kids underfoot and women clutching their proof of residency. The woman who runs the place and I seem to be the only one who speak English, but there are smiles and polite gestures to chairs all around as I wait to drop off my bags of hotel toiletries (lots of those after a few months), and fruit. The Pantry will be closed until Tuesday for the long hot holiday weekend, so I shall go home, pick fruit tomorrow, carry it around to the neighbors, and make plum and 'cot jam all weekend. By Tuesday, the house will be perfumed with ripening fruit, I will carry the flats back over, and start all again. Maybe some zucchinis can make their way over this week.
I haven't really liked any of the plum sauce recipes I have found. Do you have one for me?
2 comments:
Wow! Plums? Sound so yummy! I have never grown a tree that bears fruit before. Little nervous about that. Mostly a veggie garden grower.
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Dee
I'm so jealous. My plums and apricot blossoms froze here this year. And the rest of the garden is about 4 weeks late. I am really enjoying your archives.
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