Who knows how many pounds of plums I harvested, but at last we have come to the end of them for this year. I left a few on the tree because they were impossible to get to, but by "a few" I'm only talking about perhaps 10 or 12.
The rest either fell off the tree and fed birds and creepy-crawlies or died below it, were picked over and tossed out, were given to various friends, were eaten there and then, or were processed by me. I made a total of about 12 mostly large jars of plum butter (see photo, although some have been given away and two are in our fridge), one batch of puree for making plum fools, one nutty plum crunch, one plum crumble (pictured above), and have two huge bags full of halved plums in the freezer. The remainder of the plums in the clear plastic bowl will be finished up today. I haven't quite decided what to do with them, but am thinking I'll make them into plum butter too.
We're getting ready for the visit of our friend Karen Armel from Florida. Karen and I have known each other since first grade and are the nearest things to sisters either of us has ever known. She arrives at Edinburgh Airport early on Sunday morning after an overnight flight. She will have a few days to get over her jet-lag before she and I take off for a 3-day trip to Aix-en-Provence for a girls' getaway. Don, bless him, is getting up in the middle of the night with us (2:30 am!) on Wednesday to drive us to Prestwick for our 4:30 check-in. And he'll come back to Preswick at noon on Saturday to collect us.
Right now he's on the golf course and I'm getting my things together for today's Aquafit. Our weather remains quite autumnal--cool, sometimes sunny, sometimes cloudy, and off-and-on rainy and windy. Provence is going to feel good under mostly sunny skies and 73 degrees.
While we're away, Don will be hard at work creating a new distance education course for AACRAO, his professional association for whom he is a consultant, teacher, and mentor.
The rest either fell off the tree and fed birds and creepy-crawlies or died below it, were picked over and tossed out, were given to various friends, were eaten there and then, or were processed by me. I made a total of about 12 mostly large jars of plum butter (see photo, although some have been given away and two are in our fridge), one batch of puree for making plum fools, one nutty plum crunch, one plum crumble (pictured above), and have two huge bags full of halved plums in the freezer. The remainder of the plums in the clear plastic bowl will be finished up today. I haven't quite decided what to do with them, but am thinking I'll make them into plum butter too.
We're getting ready for the visit of our friend Karen Armel from Florida. Karen and I have known each other since first grade and are the nearest things to sisters either of us has ever known. She arrives at Edinburgh Airport early on Sunday morning after an overnight flight. She will have a few days to get over her jet-lag before she and I take off for a 3-day trip to Aix-en-Provence for a girls' getaway. Don, bless him, is getting up in the middle of the night with us (2:30 am!) on Wednesday to drive us to Prestwick for our 4:30 check-in. And he'll come back to Preswick at noon on Saturday to collect us.
Right now he's on the golf course and I'm getting my things together for today's Aquafit. Our weather remains quite autumnal--cool, sometimes sunny, sometimes cloudy, and off-and-on rainy and windy. Provence is going to feel good under mostly sunny skies and 73 degrees.
While we're away, Don will be hard at work creating a new distance education course for AACRAO, his professional association for whom he is a consultant, teacher, and mentor.
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