Coffee anyone ?

[Alaskan]

ETA...wrote this yesterday. It didn't post!

Yep... the site was squirrelly yesterday.

I had the hardest time getting it to work.

 

[Alaskan]

If my body decideds to be a brat one more time.... was about to go to bed around 11 last night after i did the house work (midwife coming over this morning) my stomach decide it was unhappy and i got sick and woke up multiple times feeling nausoues. Going to have some hot tea and a snack while i cook breakfast hopefully that will settle my stomach considering there was nothing in my stomach when i got sick i wouldnt be surprised if it helps.

Maybe you let yourself get dehydrated.

It has been hot out, and you work awfully hard.

 

[Mini Horses]

Today is waaay cooler, humidity dropping. Cooler all week but, that rain??? Well I work all week, so indoors and busy.

At least I wasn't only one having issues with this site yesterday!

 

[Mini Horses]

speedy picking technique?

Nope...ain't no speed in those little things!! Most of these were good sized, very ripe, so almost falling off the stem. Hey, I spent several hours to get these done! Enough that I began wondering --- do you really need these? Isn't this enough? Do you need to pick this many again?!!!? Yeah, it's a lesson in patience! But I will pick again tomorrow. Still have some in freezer, some dried..from last yr. One more pint of juice canned. I don't make syrup, just juice it, add a splash of lemon and WB it. Big slug of juice is about 3 TBS. No need to waste my time and sugar.

Just so you know it took a while...

That's a Tupperware strainer. See how dark? Ripe!

Can't imagine this beautiful stand of elders being cut down. Makes me want to cry. But right next to his house....so nice to pick though! No ditches and weeds.


Probably so nice sized because of all of the rain I kept from @farmerjan ! Hey, Jan, want me to bring you juice to the Fall swap??

 

[Simpleterrier]

Wow @Baymule and @Mini Horses I know I'm just a youngen compared to some of you but boy do I have a trick for picking elderberries.

It's kinda funny to be told it's so good I don't know if I should share it. I mean really I can't believe u don't already know this. I thought everyone knew this trick it will save u hours and hours. It's so simple all u need is maybe I should wait it might be a fact I could sell when the sky is falling. I would bet someone else would know this. But I hope they keep quiet to. Then we can own the monopoly on elderberry picking. But sense these are called ELDERberries I should share this trade secret.

You can skip the first two parts of this response and just read the last.

Use a piece of hardware cloth u know half by half put it over a bucket and take a cut cluster hold it by the stem and drag across the wire mesh and it will pick the berry's stem free and they fall in the bucket.

Be honest if you use this please pm me and I'll send you my address so u can mail me a check. Actually cash. 500 should do. Haha.

 

[Simpleterrier]

I might just change my handle from simpleterrier to The wise simpleterrier.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Mini turns out its acid reflux been going all day even after eating and does not seem to want to go away.

 

[Baymule]

ELDERberries!!!

$500? is that all? You sure sell out your trade secrets cheap! I’m gonna try that! Brilliant, so who taught you that? Some ELDER member of the silver sneaker club?

O WISE @Simpleterrier

 

[Alaskan]

Mini turns out its acid reflux been going all day even after eating and does not seem to want to go away.

Try dry toast and a comforting tea.

 

[farmerjan]

@Mini Horses ... some juice would be wonderful.... we can do some trading... I will have freshly butchered beef from the jersey steer and even though you raise your own chickens... a nice big FAT cornish x for your Thanksgiving dinner....but hey, how about sharing some rain along with that juice..... please.....