Day 287, Year 7: Harvest Time
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Weather: Mostly Sunny Day
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
It is harvest time here on the Cape. Tomatoes are ripening and it’s time to
go to a local farm to pick a couple of bushels to process into marinara
sauce for the winter. It is much cheaper to just buy canned tomatoes to
make sauce, but cans these days are lined with plastic and that is just not
good for you. I think I would prefer rusty cans to the ones lined with
plastic, but there is no alternative these days. Today I picked cherry
tomatoes in Heather and Jed’s garden, washed them, laid them out on baking
pans, drizzled them with olive oil, and then roasted them in the oven. When
they were done, I put them in pint jars and into the freezer they went. I
also picked and canned a couple of quarts of green beans. We have had a
steady flow of a few green beans, but no major picking that would allow us
to fill the canner with seven quarts. So I’ll just keep canning a few a
time. Heather and Jed come home from Maine late tomorrow, so Thursday will
probably be tomato picking day.
We talked to Justin, Jo, Ziggy, and Coco on Skype tonight. Coco is doing
great and Ziggy is a bundle of energy. While we were talking to Justin,
Ziggy ‘played’ guitar on Jo’s Iphone using some music application, and then
he did lazer fingerpainting on the phone’s screen and sent us the picture.
I guess there is no end to what you can do on your phone these days.
Amazing.
We also talked to our friends in Little River, South Carolina, Lee and
Lynda. We asked them to start scouting out places where we might dock
Windbird if we stay there for the winter. We will be looking for a weather
window to head south starting on October 31st and I’m afraid that date will
be here before we know it. In the meantime, we have to get serious about
enjoying our last few weeks of summer sailing here. Mark starts back to
work at West Marine this weekend, so that restricts the sailing time. But
he is anxious to get back to work, so we’ll just work around his schedule.
