Remember how many plums I had last year? Well, this is what the biggest tree looks like this year. And given that the weather is already turning wetter and chillier weeks earlier than is typical, I don’t expect a crop will soon burst forth. I’ve seen a fair number of blackberries on the vines and plan to pick this week, but I don’t think I’ll have enough to do much with them, so it’s up to the apple trees to salvage my fruit season (apple butter and mincemeat would be nice). Well, at least the turn of the weather seems to have cured my unusual allergy attack; I had one short relapse last week, but it faded pretty quickly and I’m back to breathing normally. The premature gloom seems to have also triggered my post-Dog Days recovery to start early; usually I start sleeping a lot better in the last week of August or the first week of September, but a few days ago I just crashed about a half-hour early one night and then overslept by an hour the next morning, and that pattern repeated twice more in the next few days. Obviously that’s due to it being rather dark well after dawn, but I’ll take it; still, given the allergies and the poor fruit yield, I’m hoping we don’t have another summer like this next year.
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Diary #738
Posted in Diary, tagged disease, psychology, Sunset on August 20, 2024| 1 Comment »
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