It was harvest day today! Over 100 bulbs of garlic were yanked from the ground, brushed off, washed, and then laid out on the deck to dry. It is an impressive display of odiferous bulbs. They are now safely stored in the garage but we’ll lay them out in the sun again tomorrow. Who knows, maybe we’ll get some rain overnight (faint hope).
Coincidently, on my facebook feed this morning a memory of harvesting garlic from 2 years ago popped up. I read through last July’s posts to see when we harvested last year, but there was no mention of it. Only the juxtaposition of happy family memories, and sad loss memories. This year is unlike any other with covid restrictions, but last summer - yikes - so many tears. In a few days will be the 1 year anniversary of Bella’s passing.
I also made a new recipe of lemon concentrate - it sounded promising but I screwed it up. It was simply the zest and juice of 8 lemons, 1 ⅓ cup sugar, into the instant pot for 1 minute. BUT I should have immediately released the pressure but I let it come down naturally which left it tasting like lemon furniture polish (or how I imagine it would taste based on the smell). I’ll choke it down to use it up, but gosh! What a dummy.
(whew… I’m back… just had to get Adia into the field for some wild zoomies)
Headline tonight: 4,169,119 cases with 147,295 deaths in the US. There are a total of 112,672 (112,206 yesterday) cases of Covid-19 in Canada today, with 8,874 (8,870 yesterday) deaths today.
“The exhausted earth groaned and quivered under the monotonous glare of the sun. Spirals of heat rose from the ground as if from molten lava. A panting lizard crawled painfully over the fevered rock in search of a shady crevice. Cattle and dogs cringed under the scanty shade of the trees and waited for the rain to deliver them from the heat and thirst. Instead the heat grew more intense and oppressive each day, singeing and stifling all living things with an invisible sheet of fire, which only the rain could put out.
The drought had persisted for over a month.”
~S. Rajaratnam
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