- How are you going to make 25 tons of cherry jam without a kitchen to shake a leg in?
I packed up the car with: The 25 tons of cherries, the cherry-pitter-machine, the heavy pots, jars with lids to match, enough sugar to cover all of France, the ladle, the scale… basically everything that was in our kitchen, yet stuffed in boxes in the living room, and went to Annie's apartment.
- Shorter answer: I am going to use my friend Annie's kitchen.
- Why are you going to make Cherry jam when you do not have a kitchen to stand in?
Our neighbor (who is Annie's age) has a cherry tree. This year nobody was around to pick it. He told me I could pick all of it if I wanted to. I couldn't stand the thought of the cherries rotten on the tree.
- Shorter answer: I am crazy for cherry jam.
- How is the kitchen coming along?
It started out with a bang, and I thought it was going to be completed in a blink of an eye or, at least four or five days. Then the sink and faucet were delayed. Then the granite man said he could not put the counter in, until he had the sink and faucet.
Three weeks later we are becoming microwave food experts. (Remember we live in a small town, the only take out food is Pizza and the bakery… and one can only eat so many baguettes, quiches and chocolate eclairs before exploding.)
- Shorter answer: Slowly.
- Are you using your wood-burning, pizza oven to cook with?
A wood burning pizza oven is romantic to use in cold weather and not so cool to use by spring. It takes a great deal of wood and too much time to heat up to use everyday. And it is hot as you know what.
- Hence the simpler answer: No, too hot.
- What about the Harley ride this summer?
The Harley ride will happen, but maybe not this summer.
- Longer version:With the kitchen delayed, Chelsea going on for her Master's (We need to find her a place to live by mid August), and Sacha not out of school until July… time seems short. Though with us, people who live by the seat of their pants, you never know what will happen.
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