It's Saturday night and I'm updating LJ. Let's just admit that I'd like to be one of those people who make a living by writing about their daily lives doing things like make jam. Sadly, I'm not one of those people. Perhaps less sadly, I know I'm not one of those people and yet here I am, putting together a post, with a number of photos, about ( Read more... )

For posterity, I update on jam. We got to the Farmers Market too late to buy raspberries today so, instead, we picked some blackberries on the way home. Popular opinion seems to be that blackberry jam is too seedy so, after cooking them for 15 minutes, we strained the berries. This left us with a fair bit of juice and a lot of sadly discarded pulp ( Read more... )

Today we discovered that small batch raspberry jam is a lot easier than processing forty pounds of apricots in a single hot afternoon. Of course, this means we have only ten jars rather than three or four dozen so we may end up doing more later (which will be news to Eli when he reads this) or maybe we'll just be less sharing than usual. But it was ( Read more... )

All over the internets it seems people are posting things for which they are grateful and, it being that sort of holiday, they are being grateful for their family and friends. I'm fond of those things as well, having had family and friends here for dinner and having had a lovely time with them. I'm also *very* thankful that whatever was troubling ( Read more... )

Either Myrna or the internets are not eager to see me post tonight; I believe there is a line about molasses that would apply to the speed at which things are moving. Bravely, I persevere because I'm just that certain that the LJ universe *needs* to see photos from this year's adventure in apricot jam making. Truly, we need to start considering if ( Read more... )

Periodically I think I'll post about something at some length, if not depth. Today, for example, my chain slipped off as I was biking on the lower West Seattle bridge after work. This is the second time this has happened in the last few weeks, which in itself is a little odd since it hadn't happened at all for goodness knows how many years. But I' ( Read more... )

Thanks to Gradka's delicate condition, the quilt needed a few hours in the washing machine on "sanitize" setting, followed by some time drying on the line:


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Last night I tallied up the birds I saw last February because, yes, that's what one does on a Saturday night when one is me. I discovered that I saw far more species in February than in January but I also went to the coast last February which likely accounts for some of that increase. Again, too many variables to draw any dreadfully meaningful ( Read more... )

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The MoT lives in terror of us communicating via LJ but here I am doing just that, though-I hope-with my beloved iheartleaven rather than Ms. Three ( Read more... )