The days of
summer seem to pass too quickly and I can hardly believe that we are already
heading into the second half of July! At the beginning of the summer I wrote
myself a list of several things I wanted to accomplish... I tried to make this
list reasonable, tried to give myself a break considering how busy our lives
have become and yet I have no real excuses to find myself in the middle of July with relatively nothing done!
And so, I awoke
today with a new sense of determination. I was set on finally going out to the
strawberry patch and pick my yearly flat to make homemade strawberry jam to
last us through the rest of the year.
I knew I was
late... this was supposed to happen in June! Yet the weekends slipped by... to
the point where I found myself this morning looking up the local farms with
pick-your-own strawberries, only to find that the fields closed yesterday. I
guess I learned my lesson...
Regardless of the
loss of fun of picking my own, I headed out to Herrle's and bought some pre-picked
ones in the store. They were juicy and fresh – thankfully I hadn’t totally
missed strawberry season!
Joined by my
sister-in-law, I spent the afternoon washing, slicing, and crushing
strawberries. After filling twenty-four little jars (I hope this will be
enough!) and cleaning the spilt sugar from the floor, we called it a day,
leaving the jam to set.
I am glad that I
was able to get something checked off of the list but a bit disappointed that I
missed my chance to pick... guess I’ll have to wait for apple picking in the
fall!
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