Drip drip drip

[jhetley]

Raining.  Well, the blueberries need it -- good fruit-set on our sideyard bushes, assume that the commercial barrens follow that trend.

Yesterday's mail brought contracts for that French translation of  WINTER OAK.  Headed back to the Nice Agent Lady today, to initiate a check in due time.  Now we have to pay attention to the exchange rate for Euros...

Maybe I should be writing something.

Comments

[witchchild]

How awesome. I'm in the middle of Dragon's Teeth right now and did a check to see if anything new was due for release in the near future and found the lj.

So, thank you for all the stories. I've adored them.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed the books. Nothing new due for release soon, or even sold yet. I have a couple of completed manuscripts out knocking on doors (in a metaphorical sense), but if one sold, it wouldn't see print for a year or so. Such is the lead time in publishing.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Y'all eat all the blueberries or do you have a few pounds extra?

I want to make jam and I'd be willing to drive up there for free blueberries and give you a 1/4 of my jam in return for the berries. (I think I've got smaller than quart sized Mason jars....)

I haven't made blueberry jam in 9 years. In one weekend, I picked 3 gallons of berries off of 6 bushes and put up 24 pints (IIRR).

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Actually, the robins and mockingbirds get most of our personal sideyard blueberries. Wife has to buy our freezer stock.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I probably shouldn't laugh but I am. The blueberry bushes I had were such over producers that I left about half on the bushes and still had surplus.

I wish I knew what my parents planted and if they would do as well up here. But big berries. Not tiny Maine berries. Dark powdery blue and sweet and flavorful.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Highbush berries, probably. Ours are "wild" lowbush blueberries, bushes purloined from local mountainsides in the dead of night, and the patch covers maybe six square feet. Not gonna drown you in berries, even without avian competition.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Probably. But more canelike than bushlike. There were some tall bushes in the orchard shade but the ones that produced the most, the largest, and the best tasting blueberries were the ones on the front ditchbank in full sunlight and they looked like tall canes coming out of the ground and sort of bunching together instead of as a rounded bush.