Various achievements
Nov. 9th, 2020 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaSpending one last week at the family "summer" place, which I can do because coronavirus and distance teaching. It is an adequate year for chanterelles (the smaller brown kind), but not an abundant one: we have picked 40 liters so far, are drying most of them, and have fried the rest up to eat on sandwiches.
We have also picked 11 liters of rosehips at the perfect soft stage of ripeness. Traditionally, you make dessert soup from these in Sweden. So I boiled them whole, strained out the seeds and other stuff you don't want with a sieve (this takes longer than you think, though...), added sugar and a little starch, and then you have a lovely tasty deep red soup. You eat it with whipped cream, and traditionally also tiny sweet almond biscuits that you put in the soup, but we didn't have those.
Then we have also planted four gooseberry bushes, and four black currant bushes, and did other garden maintenance like spreading out old silage that we got from a nearby farmer on the garden beds. Still getting along really well with mom, also an achievement.
As for writing, I wrote one short Yuletide treat that I unfortunately can't use as my main fic, and got started on my actual Yuletide fic, though I'm still not sure exactly where it's going to go. It just got over 1,000 words. And the poly fic is at 35K and going well.
We have also picked 11 liters of rosehips at the perfect soft stage of ripeness. Traditionally, you make dessert soup from these in Sweden. So I boiled them whole, strained out the seeds and other stuff you don't want with a sieve (this takes longer than you think, though...), added sugar and a little starch, and then you have a lovely tasty deep red soup. You eat it with whipped cream, and traditionally also tiny sweet almond biscuits that you put in the soup, but we didn't have those.
Then we have also planted four gooseberry bushes, and four black currant bushes, and did other garden maintenance like spreading out old silage that we got from a nearby farmer on the garden beds. Still getting along really well with mom, also an achievement.
As for writing, I wrote one short Yuletide treat that I unfortunately can't use as my main fic, and got started on my actual Yuletide fic, though I'm still not sure exactly where it's going to go. It just got over 1,000 words. And the poly fic is at 35K and going well.
