NEEDED: One Pole Shed for equipment storage..
Between getting this project underway and reading The Code of Four, I got exactly NO knitting done yesterday. I’m not exactly recommending the book, it was fun, leave it at that. The new Harry Potter starts tonight (with luck).
I loaded the Mehu Maija with elderberries at 7am. The whole house smells of them now. In another half hour, I’ll start siphoning the extracted juice into sterilized jars. I can decide this winter if I need to make syrup or jelly or just use the juice (my favorite) added to soda water. Very nice! Elderberries are loaded with vitamin C. There was a reason little old ladies made elderberry wine to cure what ailed them. I picked berries off and on all weekend, stepping into a nest of ground bees (yellow jackets) in the process. Sam and I were stung. I’ve had a hand like a baseball mit for two days, he’s fine. Now, picking is done in full dress, net helmet, rubber boots and gloves.
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OMG, PLEASE may I have some elderberry juice or syrup? I buy it all year long, and to have it be local….well, that would be a dream. I’ll trade you for some Motherwort double tincture, homemade by me. Or I’ll pay you for it.
Aside from wanting to share your bounty, I’m making a suggestion — an epi-pen!! Sheesh. Swelling up the size of a base-ball mit is not a good sign. The wilderness. I tell you. I think I might be too squeamish to live your life. So, vicariously it is!
Again I’d like to thank you for the pleasure of your yarn. I love it. I’m working on the Peddler’s shawl from Folk lace with the Twilight singles you sent. Can you hear the heartsong? One question — how much of its production do you do yourself? The question is from knitting observers — I never thought to ask you.