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Elsa Peters
September 1, 2011, 4:50am Report to Moderator

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Thursday 1st September

New month, white rabbits, still don't know why they say that...must Google it and see what it comes up with.  Very noisy last night in that jungle out there....the crickets were going ten to the dozen when I went to bed at nine with my book and decided that my eyes had had it and I must have been asleep by ten.  Loo trip at about 2 and then sleep until five when I woke up feeling cold.  Only had the sheet over me when I went to bed but the duvet was rescued from the floor and the train woke me at six thirty.  

Coffeed, walked the estate, the plan is to remove the rest of the rubbish today from the field, fill in some of the gaps in the fence with decent wood that are looking sparse now that the old tree branches have been removed until it gets too warm to work.  Seven thirty my time.....must get on.

Just Googled it....it implies that you will get good luck for the duration of the month and Wiki has lots of information as to where it is commonly used....so now I know....and so do you...



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Thursday continued

So who's been busy with the jam and stuff....peach and ginger, peach and cinnamon, tomatoes and chilli from the other day and tonight's supper....too hot to work outside today so settled in and made jam until lunchtime and then played on the pc making label after that....now can I recognise it without a label...

The rubbish is still in the field, the ten leva debt is still waiting to be paid.....but all's well with the world besides that.

I've had a good day.....



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Friday 2nd September

Seven thirty this morning....what's wrong with my clock and the sun was just coming up.  Beautiful start to the day.

My last lot of peach jam didn't seem to be setting properly so this mornings task was to reboil it with lemon juice added and a slightly decreased yield but much better consistency.  It's now back in its jars, downloaded images of the different fruits from the web, played around in Power Point and now have labelled jars.  Unfortunately I can't remember which was the standard plum or the plum with ginger so it'll be pot luck at that point.  As for the tomato chilli stuff cham / jutney not really sure but I have lots of little pots and the only difference is that some contain garlic and are very hot, the rest are more tomatoey....I think.  So on the label I'll have to think of something original.

Went out to set fire to my kitchen rubbish and unfortunately got hold of the garden fork.  It was in the heat of the moment in the heat of the day and probably shouldn't have been out there but now the paths are clear of weeds and the wayward broad beans that seem to be springing up everywhere have now been corralled into the bed by the tomatoes.  They were looking a little sad so they had a good soaking and while I was trimming the excess shoots off my plum tomatoes I found another cluster that couldn't be seen through the greenery.  Those two plants have produced a mega-harvest and are starting to turn red.  Thanks KD of S.

So waste of time me watering the garden....the heavens have just opened, short sharp burst though, but everything looks sort of wet and greener.....good job that I got those weeds out earlier. Also planted out three Tamarisk that have rooted in a jug of water so let's see how they do now they are standing on their own two, three, four little roots. Checking up on Wiki they seem to like saline soil so I'm not sure if I need to get the salt cellar out and sprinkle them (joke).

Photo-shoot time...just taken a stroll round now that the rain has stopped and the sun is out again....between the clouds that is...so here goes....



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Saturday 3rd September

Well considering I was in my bed very early last night my internal alarm went off at 5.20 so not bad.  Finished my strawberry picker book....nice little ending but the dog got killed which was a shame...he sounded the most fun of them all.

Coffee, estate, cooked breakfast of fried tomatoes on toast since they were looking not their best and there are more ripening, sat outside and then thought I would just put my tomato skins on the bonfire....another wrong move.  Ended up putting the plate down and picking up the fork so I dug over last years onion bed and potato bed getting rid of the weeds that are shooting up with one little downpour.  About one hour later came in remembering the plate and had another look at the peach and cinnamon jam and yes, I reboiled it.  The yield is slightly less but it does look more like jam than glue so I decided to do the same with the tomato and chilli and added it to the jar of peach syrup so it's not cham now, it's tomato, peach, chilli, raison and cinnamon jam.  So if you ever get out here and brave enough to try it....it's a big jar...   Everything is labelled up now and I only have one more batch to reboil but I've got to get more lemons first and replenish my gas.  Strange this morning....I was only thinking how the gas bottle at 60 leva has done all my cooking for almost a year and I can get it refilled in Djebel on Monday.

Went out to take pictures of the melon that I found this morning and it's 'ugly' gourd neighbour....well it's supposed to be but no sign of ugliness yet.  Walking back to the house and this time with camera in my hand I spotted a humming bee on one of the flowers in the frog garden.  The thing was really going for it and difficult to photo but you can definitely see the proboscis on a couple of them.  Didn't get much of the orange of his body...I did ask him, to turn round but obviously he's deaf.

So tonight it's party time....KD of S is having a spit roast LAMB...which he undoubtedly chose this morning from the field.  Annie missed the last one so I shall go armed with a flagon of red, some beer and a sleeping bag just in case.  I might even take the Beast since if push comes to shove, I have slept in that before and it's not bad.  Shower, wash hair, find mosquito repellent, long trousers, long sleeved shirt and something warm just in case we sit it out till dawn....




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The lamb is in the oven (at Djebel Bakery) I will be picking it up at 6 so anytime after then, we are all meeting up the pub as we have only two chairs and a bench in our abode.

Annie didn't help with the butchering, but Ilyas did save its testees and head for her!
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So apart from making jam, what does Elsa do with her spare time? http://www.thegudlife.com/blog/2011/09/04/sheep-beer-party/ .
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Sunday 4th September

Well if you've followed the link on the previous message you will have seen the evidence that a good time was had by all.  When I came back from the open air loo I was directed to move my chair away.  I look peculiarly at Dom and it was repeated and I reckoned that there had been a little plotting going on.  With a camera around I normally am very aware of where it is and where it's pointing but the last photograph was a close run thing as to whether it was going to be a camera that snapped or my neck.

They can't get over the fact that there is no man in tow and when they mentioned ski-ing which is their euphemism for what KD of S and Annie get up to after several months apart I turned it round to the subject of Borovets in winter where in fact I have been ski-ing using two lengths of fibre glass and two poles covered with several layers of insulation.  Now I had to tell them that I prefer this type of ski-ing but with their schoolboy humour it did cause a giggle.  

The meat was delicious and infinitely better cooked than the last time when it was spit-roasted.  One to keep in mind for the future.  I think it's about time that I had one for the village in my garden only this time there will be more local women....not one in sight last night...they just don't get out to play.

Woke up at about four and realised that I was not at home having decided that if I had been stopped there was no way I could have blown into that bag and got away with it.  Up this morning at about seven, made myself a coffee, KD surfaced at about seven thirty and we are both early birds and enjoy the best part of the day.  Annie came to at about eight thirty and neither of us was sure if she was sleep walking since it not normally heard of for here to be up and about at that time.

Raided the garden for tomatoes, the book shelves for new additions, packed up my stuff and I was home for nine thirty.  Slept for a couple of hours this afternoon, into Spartacus, one hundred and twenty pages down and am about to go and fiddle in the garden.  I have found another melon about the same size on another plant so all is not lost on the melon front.  

Now do I have use for a man and his own tractor?
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Quoted from Elsa Peters

Now do I have use for a man and his own tractor?


Er... is that a euphemism?

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I would be intrigued to see how a Lamb party would go at your place. I have a suspicion that more food would arrive than was taken, huge vats of yoghurt over the patio and wall to wall pancakes, and more headscarves than a blackpool magician.
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Quoted from Old Holborn
I would be intrigued to see how a Lamb party would go at your place. I have a suspicion that more food would arrive than was taken, huge vats of yoghurt over the patio and wall to wall pancakes, and more headscarves than a blackpool magician.


Yes....but wouldn't it be fun
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