the b word

Daughter one sent an email to me saying that I had not cogitated lately.

Hmm. Interesting way to say it. Much of my life is pretty boring, I fear.

I did pick the first Mesclun from my cold frame this week and include it in our daily green salad. The last couple of days I have been pruning our grapes and our orchard. We have about 20 grape vines and close to two dozen fruit trees.

I am not a great orchardist. Miriam’s dad made a good living with an orchard of rather small size, but I don’t work so hard at mine. Maybe with retirement I can do better.

We don’t get a fruit crop every year, a late frost often takes out the crop, but even then the trees and vines provide us with sufficient fruit and grape juice.

I don’t make wine, like I said, it is boring around here often.