Basic Rules for Berry Pickers:
- Never pick tomorrow’s berries today. Only pick the best, the ripest. Berries that are ripe will roll off in your hands, no pulling at the fruit is necessary.
- Put some in the baskets, not just in your mouth. This assumes that the berries are plentiful (are there ever enough). Berries right of the bush, still sun warm, are the best (this is my opinion, but it’s my blog, right… C thinks they are best cold and puts his right into the fridge to chill ’em up). Squirrel some away, come winter that taste of summer will be mighty special.
Raspberry Stash:
- Tuesday 1 qt. (Day One)
- Wednesday 2 qts.
- Thursday 2 qts.
The afternoon was perfect temperature for working on the deck; at least while the shade lasted. I brought the Joy out with some Shetland I’ve been meaning to tackle and dialed up a book I had loaded on the ipod. I LOVE having someone read to me! It’s taken me nearly all of the first disc to warm up to this book: “Holy Cow”, a love / hate relationship with India, read with an Australian accent. Then I made a wine spritzer (only in hot weather when I have the remains of a bottle) and settled into work.
Lovely…
After dinner and a paddle around the pond, I got back to work on Tivoli. The decreases are done. It’s time to put it back on two circs and check the sizing.
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5 responses to “another perfect day”
It would be so hard for me to put anything in the basket! Your Tivoli is lovely!
Lovely spider! Glad you posted it before I joined the multitudes in asking. Lovely berries… yummy both ways. I am thinking of making pasta sauce with fresh tomatoes – in January fresh tomato sauce always peps me up. And yes, back to spinning virtually. This time I am spinning silver merino while the solar dyed stuff dries.
Ahhhhh berries,knitting and spinning what more do you need ? It’s beautiful here as well….a perfect 10 for weather!!!
C is wrong and you are right…and I know about these things…warm right off the vine, or at the very least room temperature….NOT chilled! Same thing with tomatoes. And these things are NOT subjective in the LEAST. (hee)
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Boy, oh boy…my berries are long gone, and I do think you got more than I did when I was picking. I didn’t have any 2-quart days, I don’t think.
Pass the Tivoli, please. That is gorgeous, love the color. You know how to live the summer life. That spider commands attention!