Raining plums

 

Sure glad I drove home yesterday, because it's raining across the state causing all sorts of havoc on the roads. The rain is welcome, but people apparently forgot how to drive in wet weather. It's pretty simple folks-- just slow down.

Ready or not, a feel of fall in the air this morning. This is the first day since June when it won't reach 70 degrees in Seattle. The parched garden is perking right up. Soon the fall weeds start popping up. As you know, our summers are brown and winter looks green as Ireland.

We picked all those plums in about 30 minutes yesterday. Probably around 100 pounds there, and many more still left on the tree, unfortunately up too high to reach without a ladder. 

So I'll be busy this week. There are so many good plum recipes, where to start? I'd like to make some spicy Asian plum sauce. My neighbor is concocting a homemade plum liqueur that involves an entire bottle of vodka and lots of sugar. She got the recipe from a very elderly lady, who knows a thing or two.  It should be ready in December, so Wendy I'll be over for a Christmas tipple!