plums for daaaaays
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| im sure anyone in my immediate circle is sick of hearing about our plums but here is one last ode to our pride and joy. so last year was our first summer in this house and after we got back from a week in san diego in late july we noticed thousands of little red plums on the ground. we had a japanese plum tree and didnt even know it! and we had missed the opportunity to pick them! so this year we were on top of it. craig would check on them every day to see when they were ready and last week they were ripe and delicious. |
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| we started with an eight foot ladder, then a ten foot ladder and finally cut the crap and had my dad bring home a twelve footer. i was nervous when craig was up that high. but not nervous enough to make him come down. |
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| once we had boooooooowls filled with juicy little plums we got to work at cutting the flesh off the pit. brooke was in town and she was the pitting queen! |
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| jam time! megan graciously offered up her kitchen to the sticky process of making real (not just the freezer kind) jam. |
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| divvying up the jars. |
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| i cannot even begin to explain how good this jam tastes. we also bottled filling so we can have plum crisps throughout the year. |
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| for the last week, tagg, sully and tess have had a waffle with plum jam on it for breakfast. we cant get enough. |
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| and while im here, i thought i would post this picture of our big girl. talk about 'cant get enough'. |
