Sir James Galway
Last night was the last night of the Charlotte Symphony season and James Galway was the soloist. As I overheard one man say to his friend as we were walking out of the auditorium, "He can play a little flute." I love Southen compliments. The less effusive, the more impressed we are.
Bunny certainly liked his playing and responded to it by pretty much dancing a jig in my belly. I wonder if any of this music we hear will affect what music he likes later on. If so, he really likes the flute and clarinet.
And although I'm a day late: Happy Bloomin' Bloomsday. No, I didn't know at the beginning of yesterday that it was the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, but every single program on NPR featured a Bloomsday special and Gallway even mentioned it from the stage. And although I hadn't heard it before yesterday, I have now heard 7 different versions of the Molly Bloom "yes, do me now" soliloquy. Yes it was good yes it was a right and yes celebration but yes yes why can't there be some yes variety. (<--poor James Joyce imitation)
Garden
Well, so far, I've made 4 quarts of freezer pickles, 4 quarts of swiss chard, 6-7 quarts of frozen zucchini and I have more food sitting in our fridge that needs to make a trip to the freezer. I didn't even go to the garden yesterday after Tuesday's first harvest of cukes, zukes, pole beans and okra. I'm sure the rain and the hot weather have conspired to provide even more, More, MORE bounty from the garden. Dave is actually checking out a friend's ever-so-slightly used chest freezer today. We'd rather have an upright, but the chest freezer's price may be right and it will be big enough to handle this year's frozen bounty. And our friends last night pointed out that if we keep "like with like" then we shouldn't worry about searching around for that lone bag of zucchini at the bottom of the stack. And lord knows, we'd never lose the ice cream in there!!!
The beets should be ready this weekend, but again, we're going to need to freeze some, and I don't feel like harvesting until we actually have the space to prepare and store them. (And we're going to have a boatload of beets. I cannot wait!!) I'll post my recipe for beets and dill salad up here later this weekend. Yummmmmmmm. I'm even hoping to freeze the beet greens as those are a nice tasty, tart green treat for munching on this winter. I do love my greens.
Off to think some great thoughts. Or at least some grape thoughts left over from yesterday.
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