I guess we have a liftoff

[jhetley]

On-line inventory search: Some Borders stores show DRAGON'S EYE "in stock." More of them show WINTER OAK mass-market in stock. Barnes & Noble on-line claims to be shipping both, while Amazon does not.

Is this a book-launch I see before me, handle towards my hand? Come, let me clutch at thee....

Frosty morning again, bright and clear and colorful. May take a drive out to the hinterlands in search of Greening apples for winter stock, and a gallon of fresh-pressed cider -- it's that kind of day.

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[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Mm. Cider.

Homesick now.

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

Multiple congratulations...

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Greening apples? I'm hoping that as you've capitalized that it is a variety that I haven't heard of before.

When is your bookstore signing?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"Greenings" -- formal name, Rhode Island Greenings, a winter and baking apple not common in stores. We go out to the only orchard in the area that grows them, and _maybe_ they'll have some. The type usually bears every other year, one reason why it's dying out commercially, but it gives lovely crisp tart fruit that will keep in the cellar until nearly spring. Younger Son used to like to eat the slices raw, when Wife and I were making up a pie or apple crisp.

The signing is at the Bangor, Maine Borders at 2:00 PM on 5 November, a Saturday.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Ah. Good to know. Always on the lookout for tart crisp apples.

We should be able to make it. It'll be the Saturday after unixronin's surgery on November 2.