Over the weekend my brother gave us some elderberries to make jelly with. Even though he couldn’t see hubby help me clean them. He started a branch and I finished cleaning it off. I have never even seen elderberries before but I was game to try making the jelly. I ended up with Monday with 52oz. of something I don’t like. Oh well maybe Jay will eat it. If not out it goes!
This morning my daughter-in-law Deb, grandson Dakota, and I picked raspberries and this afternoon I canned jam. 32 1/2 cups of it by around 7:30 this evening. Now this is good stuff and I won’t have any trouble getting rid of this.
A labor problem put the deck men behind today but in the afternoon two of them showed up to take over for the guy that quit. So we are still not quite done but very soon!
A little story:
Sunday morning expecting SEB and family for a visit I wanted to get up early and mop the kitchen floor. I took the foam mop off the hook and found that the foam had separated from the base of the mop. No problem I’ll just go to the basement and get the replacement head. I brought that up only to find that with the original one the head was held on with plastic fasteners and the new one had screws in the foam head which fastened to the metal part of the mop. I checked the garage for nuts to fit the screws with no luck. I finally decided to use the old string mop that weighs a ton wet. I don’t have one of those buckets with a wringer on it so it was fight with wringing it out. So here I am half way through the floor when I hear clink. What was that? Didn’t see anything so I continued to mop. Clink-clink- now what! I pulled the mop back and the head came off and laid there on the floor as I stared at an empty wooden handle! Well shit is someone trying to tell me something? After some searching I found the screw that goes through the metal head and the wooden handle to hold the string mop on said handle. Now the wing nut that goes on the screw took a little more searching to retrieve it. But it was finally assembled again and the floor was finished before my arms fell off. I got to get a smaller string mob and a fancy mop bucket and throw the two mops I have in the trash!
So there was good things and bad things going on but such is life!
My Pappap liked elderberry juice. Grandma would press it out and treat ‘em like grapes, maybe add a little sugar before processing the jars. She might have made jelly with some, too.
It’s more a memory of the folks for me, rather than the taste of the product.
A couple summers ago, I filled in as a clerk at the coffee shoppe while someone went on vacation. One of my duties was cleaning the floor of the front (customer) area.
There was a small mop, real cheap, and already old.
The floor seemed to get wider, no matter the time of day I brought out the bucket.
One afternoon, not a customer around, so I figured I could get half washed now, and half after closing. The mophead fell off while I was wringing it out in the squeezey gizmo.
I finished the floor on my hands and knees, using the mophead.
Then I told the manager where to get a real nice janitor’s mop, with a changeable head. She went out and got one, even though the cost was $36. She didn’t want anyone to see me doing the floor on all fours again!!
When the owner got the bill, he about had a stroke. All that money for handle and two heads!!
He did admit that the new mop is much easier to use with its long handle, and being able to take away the head and run it through the laundry is fine.
They are still using that same mop, two years later. The money up front must have been worth it.
Here at home, we have a good janitor mop and bucket with wringer, but I don’t use them often enough anymore.
All that schooling that Brandi has been through and she still doesn’t know how to mop the floor?
The rasberry jam sounds like itis going to be really delicious.