News from the jam factory

[wiseheart]

I've made two sorts of apple jam today: one with elderflower syrup (not elderberries, as I said last time - I keep missing these things up) and one with raisins, orange zest and gingerbread spices. Both turned out very delicious. The tiny jars will go to the fair, the bigger ones will stay with us and used for palatschinken or topfenknödel. Yum!

I also finished the little pillow cases and started filling them with cherry pits. Only it turned out that I got so many cherry pits donated that I'd need to make at least four more pillow cases. I'm not sure I'll actually do it. 14 of the things are more than enough. I might just put the cherry pits into jars - they've been sterilized thoroughly, after all - and keep them until next year. Then I'll have a start of supplies already.

Part of the reason why I don't want to make more of the things is because two of my fingers are mildly injured. The corner of a fingernail rubbed my index finger sensitive, and I burned my middle finger while jam making. Even so, I'll have to sew nine more cherry pit pillows closed in the upcoming days, which is bad enough.

I called H in the early evening. We discussed decluttering and letting things go for quite a while. I wish I could visit her, but that would take at least four to five hours, due to the distance and the fact that her house is on top of a steep hill, and I don't dare to leave Mum alone. It's one thing to leave her when I don't go very far and can be home within the hour if I have to. But going to an outlying village where the busses only run twice in an hour, plus over an hour from the bus to our building by tram... that's too much of a risk for me.

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I won’t be able to do as much as I would like, but I must go on. I can’t afford to get too much behind schedule.