Thinking about autumn!

Category: gardening among the rocks | Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:06 am

Hello Blog! Just a quick entry tonight. But I had to cheer for myself, since I got a perfect, red tomato out of my garden. Oooo man, that was goood! It got so cold night before last (about 39!) I thought for sure I'd lose the plant, but it's hanging on. Might have to finally try those green tomato recipes I've seen, though. And pluck up all my romaine, too. It's gonna be so much harder to watch my diet when the cold weather rolls in!
We have a nationally-awarded cider farm not too far from me. It's all back roads that even I can navigate with no worries. And it's cider time! We're going to head over there on payday and get a jug of fresh-pressed. Actually they are required to pasteurize it so it isn't quite like the stuff we made when I was little, but close enough. Besides, I have a friend who works there who may be able to score me a jug of the fresh stuff.
Ok, this may run my blog a little long, but it's a great cider story. When I was in high school, I was in all the ag. classes. Just loved it. Anyways, we made cider one year as a fund raiser. Well, we pressed one batch on a friday and didn't properly mix varieties and it came out waaaay too sweet. So the ag. advisor stashed the jugs in his office and went home. For a 3-day weekend. So we came in early the next week, and all the cider had fermented. Big time. I mean, it turned green and blew the tops off the jugs. 3 or 4 of the boys offered to haul the jugs down to the river to dispose of them. They didn't show up for the rest of the day. And when they did, well, you can just imagine the condition they were in, lol! (egads, am I a hick or what?)

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jubabe296 wrote on Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:16 am:

(egads, am I a hick or what?) LOL!!
Sounds like something that would have happened in our Ag. class in high school!! Cider sounds so good!! I love Autumn!! Of course here in south central Texas we don't have much of Autumn !! Oh and I bet that tomato was really good. Congrats!!

Gardenstew wrote on Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:52 am:

>>> 3 or 4 of the boys offered to haul the jugs down to the river to dispose of them. <<<

(say in a Homer Simpson voice)
Yesssss.... "dispose".

Sounds like you had a pretty gullible ag. advisor :)

CritterPainter wrote on Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:01 pm:

Gullible? No way, he was an old farm boy himself and I'd bet my bunnies he knew exactly what would happen! (love the Homer thought!)
Want to know just what a hick I am? That same year I was a champion poultry inspector for my state. I can still spend 5 minutes in a chicken pen and tell you who the best layer is! Paaa-thetic.

glendann wrote on Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:15 pm:

That is just so funny. When I was 12 years old my cousin and I found some of my uncles homemade wine and decided to sample it .It wasn't sweet enough so we put Orange Fizzies in it.It was good then .We drank a bunch of it and then tried to go inside my aunts house arm and arm singing as loud as possible lol.We would take one step up the steps and 2 back .My aunt laughed about that until she passed away 2 yrs ago.She said my daddy was going to kill her for letting us get drunk.

Gardenstew wrote on Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:23 pm:

Haha, a drunk 12 year old Glenda, funny! I bet it didn't take much to get tipsy :)

>>> I can still spend 5 minutes in a chicken pen and tell you who the best layer is! Paaa-thetic. <<<

Not pathetic at all Critter. Everyone has their talents :D