January 30, 2014
I'm itching to update and continue all this.  It's a good way to avoid doing real work.

Starting over

It has been 8-1/2 months since my last post here.  A friend asked if I have abandoned the site and blog.  I have not — I just have not updated it in 8-1/2 months.  Life and lethargy overcame me.  I managed to get through the Festival of Nations in early May, decorating 112 eggs between April 2 and May 2.  I watched nearly 12 seasons of Murder, She Wrotewhile making the eggs last year; this year my choice was Quincy, M.E.  Quincy yells a lot and the episode endings are not neat and tidy.  I prefer Jessica Fletcher's style.

I have set up my 2012 canning blog; I hope you will check back for updates on my canning action.  An extremely mild winter and early everything else has nudged me to my jam pot.  A friend with the most generous heart I know gave me something like 20 2-cup packages of frozen North Star cherries last summer and I still have several in my freezer.  They must go!  My rhubarb is ready to pick, too, and yesterday I finally got off my keester and made a batch of cherry-rhubarb jam.  It is a good idea but not yet a perfect recipe.  I am intrigued enough by the idea to make a second batch, hopefully a more perfect recipe.  Whether or not it will be Fairworthy remains to be seen — I have lots of jams, jellies, pickles, and relishes to make between now and August 15.  Lots.

In about five weeks, Apple Computer is abandoning its mobileme website service, where this resides.  I have to find a place to host my site and figure out how to get all the stuff that is here to the new server.  I am open to pointers to inexpensive hosting.  Right now, blogger.com is a possibility if I can move everything here to there.

Check out the June-July issue of Saveur magazine, page 31.  Saints preserve us!