the fruits of my labor

It seems often the case that either I am not very busy and have little of interest to write about, or that my days are quite full and there's not much of me left at the end of the day to share my tales on these pages. Lately, I am in a kitchen all day long: at work, I make hundreds of pounds of dough, mountains of cookies, buckets of sweet fillings and toasted nuts. I come home, shower, and set about my projects here which have lately been centered around the use and preservation of the bulky berry booty that came back with me from Sauvie Island on my last visit. There has been two year's worth of jam, three kinds of wine, cobbler, dried cherries... highlights coming soon.