A Busy Saturday for Me

My task for today was a very simple one... go to the market and ask the guy from A & C farms to hold my turkey until Christmas since I was not putting Thanksgiving on this year.... I am not sure how many times I have been to the market got in and out without seeing or talking to any one that was there simply because there was no one there I actually knew... today it was a different story... it started as I was walking into the building and met up with Claudette and her husband... we talked for a few minutes and on our different ways we went only to walk in and meet up with Jerry... what was suppose to take me a few minutes took me an hour to do.... as I walked along I ended up meeting up with several other people that I knew and had not seen in a long time.... but as I came to the last few I thought of mom and how she would not liked this trip to the market with me this morning because of it.... it has always been a great complain of hers when she went out with dad... he took too long because he always stopped and talked to those he knew... I laughed at the thought of her saying to me that I was just like my father... I am out of there with a bag of fresh cranberries knowing that I had no idea what I was going to do with them because there was so many and I really only needed about 1/4 of them for Christmas but I thought what the heck.... and a bag of string beans....

After a short stop into mom and dad to drop off the string beans... I headed to the grocery store when I met up with several other people and walked out of there with frozen strawberries, sugar, oranges and lemons.... supplies for strawberry jam and marmalade... came home and spent the rest of the day making preserves... 4 bottles strawberry jam for mom since she was down to her last bottle.... 10 bottles of cranberries and 14 bottles of marmalade... of course most of it will be shared with the family which I already started with Robin as he headed back to his in laws with a box of crap apple jelly, (which was only favor since they were his crap apples) orange marmalade and beets... now I am sitting here thinking what else I can do with my time with Carl gone... I was talking to Hubert in the afternoon and he said that he had made grape jam or was it jelly and thought maybe I should check tomorrow on the grape situation here and see if there is enough to make some of that as well... now that will be something new because I have never made that before.... I have to say time went a lot faster today with all that I did... the only thing was when I came up to bed tonight or last night since it is 5 am Sunday morning... was sitting at the computer and heard a very loud noise downstairs... I went to see what was going on only to find that the shelf in the pantry that held all the preserves had collapsed from the weight... I guess I did enough preserving for the year... one of the little thingies that held the shelf has to be replaced... maybe I should look for a heavier one so it can hold the bottles or just put the bottles some where else in the cupboards...

I know this morning when I get up again I have the clematis to deal with... they are not normally cut down but this year I am... they have covered the window in the hall way and the other night I got up to go to the washroom and kept hearing this very strange noise and after trying to find out what it was ... I discovered that the wind had cause it to move the screen open on the window and it was making this strange noise... it wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't here alone but it kind of freaked me out so they have to go... actually I was thinking of moving them any way ... so this would be a good time to do it... now to get the planter ready for the move... anyone have a spare length of rain gutter for me LOL... there are other things that have to be done soon as well.... around the yard like picking up all the decorations around the yard.... and putting them away for the winter... cutting some of the plants down... so maybe that is what I will be doing today while it is still not too cold out to get them done....

So off to bed I return... and hope that I will start my day a little later then now... Enjoy the wonders of this autumn time.... it is one of my favorite seasons.... Joanne