Fruit Trees and Blogging Legs

I’ve been fiddling with this program all day, I also tried a few other blog programs at the same time and this is the one I like best. I’m starting to feel more comfortable with all the gidgets and gadgets, widgets and wadgets, the feeds and burns and all the other high tech stuff I’m not used to! I can tell that this is going to make life a lot easier for me once I’ve worked with it a bit more, it’s just gonna take a while.

I did take a short break this afternoon and went grocery shopping for jam making supplies. We are lucky enough to have dozens of plum, pear and apple trees growing wild in our area. It’s very common to see them planted one after another all along the old tractor and small village roads. I think this practice started after the war when food was so scarce. I’ll try and get some pictures tomorrow. Anyway, people don’t harvest from these trees like they used to so most of the fruit just falls off the trees and rots. The critters enjoy it but it makes me sad to see all that food going to waste. So sometime during the next week I’m gonna get me a big old basket full of plums and make some plum butter. I haven’t had that in years!

We checked the pear trees also but they aren’t ripe yet. There’s a lonely old tractor road just above our house where someone planted several pear varieties. Now they sit there forgotten…