OH be still my heart!~2 posts in one MONTH

i hope i found my way home now............

after yesterday's rain, and boy did it rain
i looked out today and expected dry pavement
silly me
the ground is still soaked
my laundry is still dripping!

the drakes need to be taken to the processor this weekend no later
( i sent an email to our attorney who is a duck hunter to see if he'd be willing....haven't heard back from him, then discovered....i sent it to his old email address!)

ok fixed that


now where was i?

ok vintage cookbooks

that's what is going on around here for interest lately

the older the better
vintage war years with rationing tips a plus
vintage war years CANNING books are always welcome

i am slowly trying to set in a hedgerow of fruits, i figure it couldn't hurt at all
starting i believe with barberry, which we have growing all over the place
(grows wild here for me..........EVERY thing grows wild here for me, mock orange, rose of sharon........ barberry)
i want to add cultivated blackberry, raspberry, blueberry and cranberries....
currants
gooseberrys
seaberry
honeyberry
elderberry
and maybe some grapes
bernie keeps killing my wild grapes off on me .......maybe if i put in cultivated ones?

all this is because i don't know how long or when we will get to move
so we need to literally bloom where we are planted

besides i think that the berries will add immeasurably to our life and to the property and maybe even to the wildlife in the area

not to mention all the juice and dried berries i will be putting up

and CRANBERRY sauce by the bucketfulls......

ok i didn't say i could stay long
the ducks need to go out

til next time

vi