Firends are God's gift for the weary soul
Jul. 13th, 2020 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartI visited my friend Elise today, to deliver Baby Book #3 and to pick up the cherry stones she collected for me (they are making sour cherry wine, so it was a huge pile of stones). We had a lovely talk for about an hour and a half. She's such a darling; we worked together for almost 24 years, I saw her children grow up (they learned in the same school), and now her grandchildren. She has one more year to work, then she'll retire, too. I hope we'll be able to have more time for each other then, although with three grandchildren, elderly parents and in-laws and an orchard she'll be pretty busy, even as a retiree.
Both she and her hubby (who was also home for some 10 minutes) were ecstatic about the baby book, which is a great joy for me. I also took the patchwork cards with me for Elise to select whichever she wants and she took two of them.
Coming home, I spent the afternoon sterilizing the cherry stones. It is always tedious work, as you have to boil them first to get rid of as much remaining fruit flesh as possible (I boiled them three times, each time for about 20 minutes), and then you have to put them in the oven (lowest grade) to dry them completely, or else they would collect mould. It is a lot of (boring) work, but it must be done, so I brought it behind me.
Tomorrow Louise and I are going to finish the pillow cases, so that I can fill them. I might even work a bit on the drawstring bags; we'll see. It isn't urgent, after all.
Both she and her hubby (who was also home for some 10 minutes) were ecstatic about the baby book, which is a great joy for me. I also took the patchwork cards with me for Elise to select whichever she wants and she took two of them.
Coming home, I spent the afternoon sterilizing the cherry stones. It is always tedious work, as you have to boil them first to get rid of as much remaining fruit flesh as possible (I boiled them three times, each time for about 20 minutes), and then you have to put them in the oven (lowest grade) to dry them completely, or else they would collect mould. It is a lot of (boring) work, but it must be done, so I brought it behind me.
Tomorrow Louise and I are going to finish the pillow cases, so that I can fill them. I might even work a bit on the drawstring bags; we'll see. It isn't urgent, after all.
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