I spent most of the afternoon peeling pears! Lots of pears! Lots and lots of pears!
A few weeks ago Thomas and the kids picked several bushels of pears and then Thomas with a little help from Eler Beth peeled and prepared all of them and he now has several five gallon jugs of pear must, currently making wine. He made pear wine last year and it was delicious! Neither of us drinks much of anything alcoholic, so we ended up only keeping about four bottles of the wine. We gave the rest away as gifts. And as I said it was VERY good! We also made preserves.
Well, then a friend told Thomas that his tree was just full of pears and to come help himself, so he and the kids picked them, and now we have sliced pears ready for making preserves! I peeled and Thomas cored and sliced. (I really gave my $1.00 vegetable peeler a work out! I really love that thing!) Of course a lot of the pears have been eaten as "pears", too. They were really good this year! Anyway, I'm glad to have them out of the way. Now I'll be making and canning preserves.
I spent the first part of the day sleeping. I was up most of the night coughing and nothing would help until I took some Thera-Flu early this morning. That always makes me sleepy, especially when I haven't slept well anyway. So peeling pears is about all I accomplished today.
It is finally getting cooler here. The rain we got yesterday and today helped make it feel even cooler than it actually was. I'm not ready for it!
My daughter brought home five As (one A+) and a B on her report card this week!! I'm very proud!
Well, that's all I've got tonight! It's late and I'm tired, so more later.
2 comments:
Sounds like you did a lot to me with all those pears and especially if you aren't feeling well and didn't sleep well. Good for your daughter on her good grades. Paula
Great going for Eller Beth on the report card!!! And honey, you can send along some of that pear wine anytime! Sounds wonderful. . . Cya, Kris
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