Apples! Apples! Apples! The tree is full of them and they are ripening like mad! Today I picked the first basket-ful. In fact, an apple crisp (Pat Kay's recipe) is baking as I type this. It will be the third and largest crop of apples we've had since we moved to The Rowans in the spring of 2004.
Thanks to our friend Karen, who brought us Bob Flowerdew's book The Gourmet Gardner as a host/hostess gift, I have at last identified the type of apples we have. They are James Grieve apples, a mid-autumn producer. The James Grieve is a tart and crisp but juicy apple. It appears to be a good eating apple; we'll see just how good it is as a cooking apple, although I seem to recall some pretty good apple crisps back in the autumn of 2004.
This morning I went with Don to the Comrie Medical Centre where he got a cortisone shot for his sore shoulder. The X-rays showed some damage to the ligaments in his right shoulder. The doctor said he'd like Don to lay off golf for about 10 days. That works out to 20 as we're leaving for the States a week from tomorrow. Despite all the horrible things you hear about cortisone shots, he said it was painless and the needle was a short one. He's feeling fine.
For the first time in about 2 months, all 4 of us altos managed to make it to The Royal Hotel for coffee this morning. It was nice to have everybody back together again but it won't last long. Liz is away to Spain this weekend so there will only be 3 of us next week. Then Robbie and I take off on Thursday. She and Peter are going to Australia for several weeks and we're away to New York state for 10 days. Such busy lives we all lead.
This afternoon after I harvested the apples, I went into the studio and made a wall quilt which I've named "First Came Sputnik." I haven't decided yet how I'll finish it but here is a preliminary look at it as it now looks.
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