Fall is here…
and I’m in full on food preservation mode. I think it’s safe to say that my life, and my happiness, revolves completely around food. Today, after going to the post office (my one non-food related task…sending a book out to a bookmooch.com recipient), I stopped by the farmer’s market to see if they had any butternut squash. Usually, by this time of year, I’m harvesting my own squash, lining them up in the foyer and admiring them. But we got zip from our garden (and then gave up probably a little too early), so I’m ok with buying things locally. I got 2 squashes and 2 half pints of rasperries. And on the way, I saw the “blueberries/rasperries” sign on the road which had popped up for a week in August and then disappeared (apparently everyone is having a crappy gardening year)… (new paragraph…getting long)…
So I got home and we went to the grocery store for our weekly shop, and then back out to find the berries. The picking wasn’t easy but we got 5 pints of blueberries and one quart of already picked raspberries. I love gathering food but blueberries and raspberries suck. They’re so damn small and it takes forever to fill up a box. It exhausted me, but hey, it was a beautiful fall day, so I’m not complaining.
Then off to the apple orchard to pick our apples. They were covered in pesticide this year (Yuk), but we got 2 big bags (45 pounds total) of mostly macs. I’ve already used 8 pounds of them on 6 pints of applesauce that I made with my new Victorio food strainer. Froze 4 of the blueberries and the quart of raspberries. Pretty pleased with myself but feeling pretty tired.
Also ran for 3 miles today! Very slowly but my endurance is definitely improving. Now J is waiting for me to finish so we can watch a documentary about the financial crisis. : ) We’re such nerds but I do count myself lucky for finding myself a nerd that I can be my own nerdy self with. Anyway, good, busy day today. Tomorrow it’s supposed to rain so I plan on sorting through my recipe cabinet and doing other indoor things. The weekends almost (almost!) make the work weeks worthwhile.
