Today was a gorgeous stunner of a summer day: 75F, no humidity and clear blue skies. This morning I was back from the farmer's market by 10am, loaded down with a huge haul of tart cherries, blueberries and gooseberries. Paul helped me pit four quarts of cherries, and then I froze blueberries and cherries, made cherry jam, cherry juice, dried cherries and gooseberry jam.
The day was spent relaxing and puttering, walking Zoë with Becky Cooper and Paul, and just letting off some steam. I need about another week of this.
This evening I drove out with Zoë to my in-laws' farm to do weeding in my garden, and she romped and played while I pulled up humongous purslanes and ragweeds. I separated the purslanes and gave them to Nora, who was glad to have them. Weeding done, Zoë and I lay on our backs and watched the stars appear and the sun set, and a million jillion fireflies flash and dance. A huge orange punkin of a full moon rose as we drove home.
After we got home and gave Nora her weeds, I came in and made a nice batch of onion-garlic-sauerkraut. In three to four weeks, it'll be ready, just in time to can it up to make room for the fall harvest of cabbage.
And now it's very late and I'm going to bed.