The last of the roses have bloomed - - this one climbed into
the apple tree to escape the four legged horned predators.
The
Revolutionary War Reenactors put on a terrific show nearby recently. They were here about three years ago, but I didn’t
get to see the drills that time. Washed
out after checking out the suttlers.
July is past
and we’re having the first ripe tomato in a salad at dinner tonight.
The black raspberries
are finished and I have two gallons of seedless pulp and juice in the freezer
ready to turn into jam. The black berries are just starting to ripen.
I put a quart
of basil pesto in the freezer and want to process some parsley butter this
week. I pulled the last of the Romano bush beans a couple of days ago. Someone online had described an easy way to
pick bush beans for folks with arthritis: pull up the whole plant and then in a
comfortable seat on the porch, pick the beans off the plants. Works great!
The broccoli
has been amazing this year. Still
getting lots of it and am freezing that.
It’s time to start picking and pickling some beets and the summer squash
just started bearing.
Some friends
and I spent an afternoon dyeing wool and yarn.
I had a skein of fingering – wool and silk and one of dk weight orange
and tan-colored- that I wanted to overdye.
The wool and silk one is in shades of blue and I don’t know what you
would call the other skein, but I am happy with it. I dyed very small sections of the pre-soaked and
then wrung out skein using Jacquard dyes applied drop by drop with a syringe
and was very pleased with the results.
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