Last week the home ed. group went strawberry picking and afterwards we all made jam together! We had about five jars each to take home, here are our last two!
In the garden the gooseberries were ready.
Now I need suggestions as to what to do with them! Going to put them in the freezer for now I think as I am not sure and don't want them to get squishy before I decide!
Wonderful suprise in the garden - as I was kneeling picking the little sour green fruits I happened to look up and there right above my head, unoticed until now - was a huge cherry tree! That's what happens when you move into a house in mid-winter and have no idea what the skeleton trees will turn out to be. In high excitment I remembered seeing another blossom tree this Spring and so went off to search and found a lovely tree ripening up with plums! Bonus tiny raspberry bush found at my feet as I squuezed the little plums, deciding that they really were plums and not something unusual (say, quince?). Very exciting fruit day can't wait to see what I find next. The Wild behind the woodshed looks to be a huge 40ft tangle of blackberry bushes. Last year I made about three bottles of blackberry and honey syrup but this year if we are still around I will make masses and masses of the stuff ready for Christmas gifts.
While I gloried in fruit, and what I would do with it all (where will I get a fruit picking ladder for the cherries?) the boys made pirate jewellery, painted wet on wet and gazed at their new fish (or in Isaac's case - get excited and make up songs about fish!)
See the play fruit on the table? I made it from felt - copied cheaply from some I saw in town last week. I went back to the shop twice to examine it in between bouts of sewing. The fish appears to find it as tasty as the elephants and dolls in the kitchen.
