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Mulberrys are ripe!!

June 1st, 2005 at 02:50 am

Took a load of garage sale items to school for the school fundraiser. I still have about 5 more loads (at least) in my house to take. I am going to take another load over shortly.

Also took daughter #2 (the one who has been so sick) for another checkup at the Children's hospital in the city. She had one last week, one this week, and now we don't have to go back for 3 weeks. I still have to track all her input and output. She also has to have 12-16 grams of fiber (foodwise) per day, in addition to her medications.

On the way home, we went buy and looked at another farm that we have an appt to see on Thursday night. Looking at the house and reading the description I am not sure. It is very possible there is no heat (or electric) in the house. It appears they heat with wood, and I saw no electrical service, and no spans of electric going from the service pole to the house. Guess I will find out on Thursday. But, it does appear to have fruit trees, and an outside firepit which looked real cozy. It has 20 acres, 2 barns and 2 ponds, and an old fashioned root celler. It is on hilly land, and to pump water from the ponds to the garden spot would be uphill. It is halfway between my work and the girls school, and on the corner of blacktop and gravel. Currently it has horses there, so the fences are in good shape. The price is very very good-for 20 acres, and acutally my housepayment would go down from what it is now, as the interest rate is lower and I would be paying down half of it on the down payment from the sale of my house. But, it will depend on what the house is like.

If we get to the country, I would have to get a small tractor (to mow) and a tiller. But I would not be paying monthly to : city water $40, city sewer $30, trash service $18. I could get back to canning and putting out a big garden and raising our own meat. Not having to pay for meat, fruit and veggies is a huge savings too. I already have the canning jars from when I canned years ago.

When we got home, I checked the mulberry trees, and they are ripening. We picked about a gallon before it got to dark. I pick the trees, the girls pick the ground. The entire time we were picking a bird was going nuts. I am not sure if it was because the cat was with us, or because we were taking 'his' berries. we also got several strawberries out of the patch.

1 Responses to “Mulberrys are ripe!!”

  1. Anonymous Says:
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    One of my fonder memories just out of college was of a roommate making mulberry pancakes from the mulberry tree in the yard. Yum.

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