Had an early morning visitor of the really black and fuzzy sort.
Last years' baby, on his own and looking for something to fatten up with for the winter. He found something!
Plums from the tree are all over the ground. The deer have been vacuuming up the plums for over a week, and now they have competition. He’s just a little twerp and he’ll be hibernating on his own for the first time this winter. Mishkin had a few unkind things to say to the bear before we chased him away. We try not to encourage bears and this is the first one we’ve had in the yard this year, which is highly unusual. Normally we see them regularly starting in May.
Flowers from the garden and fruit sauces.
We bought two cases of fruit, one of peaches and one of pluots. Yesterday I made four pints of a peach sauce and four pints of pluot sauce, for pancakes. Today I’m going to do that again and I’ll add spice to the sauce, with vanilla bean and cinnamon. I will also make some peach butter and pluot butter, and jams, and then can the rest. Fun! Not all of that will happen today because I’m almost out of sugar. Oh well, if I was organized I’d be dangerous.