It was a busy morning doing livestock maintenance (aka scooping the poop). It is a bunch of work but it always feels good at the end when you know all your animals are clean and dry, especially in advance of some upcoming foul weather.
On the harvesting front, we picked our plum trees clean. This is the first year we have gotten any plums off our trees.
These gorgeous fruits are juicy, sweet and delicious; unfortunately, we are not the only ones who think so.
The ants and earwigs really like our plums too and are very good at getting into them as soon as they are ripe. Plums ripen just fine off the the tree, so we harvested all of them (ripe and unripe) and will let them finish ripening indoors away from the very hungry insects.
I know that there are a lot of them, but I am hoping we can eat all these plums fresh so that I do not have to can any. It is a very delicious challenge - we accept.
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