And summer past without much posting from me. So unlike me! Summer can be the most fun to blog about and yet I had a new perspective this year… the perspective of someone who HAS TO get her blood pressure in check so I let a lot of things just slide. Hopefully I will have time to post some warm fuzzy summer memory posts on here in the near future.
When we weren’t preparing the house for sale we went to the north to be with my side of the clan. When we weren’t up north we enjoyed biking around our city, one big biker gang.
We are in transition at our house… hoping to move to a whole new community and begin a whole knew adventure… but that is all up in the air so I will not bore you with the details. Instead I will update you if our plans go through.
Harvest arrived at our house. The sweet little gardens that I have gushed about planning and planting on here grew and most plants succeeded. Thankfully we had many generous friends share with us in the areas that didn’t gleam much for harvest. My tomatoes were amazing, the zucchinis added lovely character to our front yard and flavour to our meals. Beats did much better then onions and my kids picked all the Swish Chard while weeding… the rain washed out my baby spinach plants but my youngest daughters single bean plant grew and produced ten fold in veggies! Friends and neighbours dropped off fresh corn and squash, beats and cabbage, broccoli leaves and carrots. It was wonderful to have such generous community around us.
We celebrated another apple festival and processed over 41 litres of apple sauce. Garnet was a brilliant inventor this year and created a combination of two tools that made picking our very tall apple tree much easier. With a metal wire looped at the end of a broom stick and a large fishing net in hand he gathered in the crop while my youngest two eagerly bagged the apples. All was paraded in to my hot and sticky kitchen where I boiled, spiced and puréed them into a delicious golden sauce.
Harvest season makes me warm deep down, completely unlike the way the summer sun warms one, with a feeling of security and stability and optimism about the coming winter. We don’t even know where we will be living this Christmas… but it still feels just wonderful to keep up with the basics of life while we wait.
What was your favourite summer or harvest moment this year?
Always Lady Mac An Rothaich
TTFN
