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August 25th, 2010 | 
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Pokey, who used to be a weed (The photo above is of my so-very-close-to-16-year-old daughter and a plant that used to be a weed, if you accept the definition of a weed being an unwanted plant. At some point, Pokey – who I really wanted to call Audrey III, but I was outnumbered – got big enough to capture our attention, and after that, if he was wilting due to the hot sun, we’d go out and water him. He’s kind of our plant mascot now.)* No recipe [Continue reading On Weeds, Family Histories, Maternal Relationships, Friends, and Purple Hair] Just four days ago, my daughter called out to me that our plum tree that’s right outside our kitchen window was covered in buds.
Plum Tree Buds And today, it’s covered in blossoms.
Plum Tree Blossoms It’s been a wreck of a day. Two of the kids have nasty colds, our television wouldn’t turn on and started smelling like burning something, my daughter dropped her cell phone in the toilet, my card reader died, my child support is still not in. But somehow
Big, red bowl of plums The plums are finally ripe on our plum tree, and I harvested an entire big bowl-full off of one branch, and there are still that many plums still on the branch – not to mention the rest of the tree! The kids helped, and we’ll harvest some more over the next few days. I’ve invited some friends over on Saturday to get the rest of them!
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Plums from in my backyard today I have a gorgeous plum tree in my backyard and this year it produced a whole bunch of gorgeous plums. I’ve lived here for two years, but last year the tree didn’t produce any fruit. This year, it’s covered in beautiful purple plums. I am starting to despair, though, that they will ever ripen. I keep hearing from other people about how their plums are ripe and they are off making wonderful things with them. They have looked pretty much the same for a couple weeks now, and  |
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