Having Fun is Hard Work!

Sep
26

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Planning anything with my friend Linda is like an overload on the idea of having “eyes too big for our stomach”. Only it’s not about eating too much…well, sometimes it is, but I’m not getting into that right now. It’s about thinking we can fit 68 hours of activity into an afternoon–with time to spare!

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It happens all the time. Like the year we decided to pick blueberries on a day when the temperature soared over 100 degrees. But why stop there? We brought the berries home (to a non-air-conditioned house) and proceeded to make blueberry scones and blueberry coffee cake. All before we started in on dinner!

Nuts? YES!

Last fall, we decided to can boxes of green beans, beets and carrots, while attempting to make an ‘early’ Thanksgiving dinner with most of the trimmings (including pumpkin pie and homemade rolls). Not crazy enough? Well, it happened to be on the same evening a group of 30 teenage boys and leaders came over to play paintball and cook 10 pizzas in the same kitchen we’d already maxed out!

We never learn from these enthusiastic planning times. We just keep planning them!

Recently, Linda’s daughter, Andi, used fresh apples as centerpieces and accents at her wedding. Linda purchased apples wholesale from a local orchard and with the help of friends, decorated the church and reception hall beautifully.

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With the wedding over, I stuffed my car full of boxes of apples and brought them home. Linda and I planned on turning the apples into applesauce, pies, fritters, and crisp in the afternoon before taking a niece and nephew to an event we had tickets for (taking them to dinner first). Oh, and we also rented a movie to watch while we relaxed after it was all over!

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Yeah, right!

Once again, we bit off way more than we could chew…it took three days to finish the apples, make some terrible tasting apple fritters and several bags of apple pie filling to freeze. And, oh yea, we turned some of that apple pie filling into apple turnovers for the big family dinner we’d planned. (We never did get to that movie we wanted to watch!)

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Okay, so we’re slow learners…but we make tons of memories that we can laugh about for years to come. Even if those planned events almost kill us sometimes. Most importantly, we have fun in the process!

Well, most of the time.

Kerrie blogs at City Girl Farming.

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Comments

  1. Kathi N says:

    I can relate. We just picked 100 pounds of grapes that our friends had growing in their yard. (They don’t do anything with them.)

    I am seeing purple right now.

    The applesauce sounds (and looks!) great! And the apple decor was awesome. Thanks for sharing.

  2. hatpin2 says:

    Yes, I love the apple decor. Right now, I never want to see another tomato, we canned 54 quarts of sauce this year!

  3. Pete says:

    Oh, how delightful! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

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