It is also berry season. Blueberries, varieties of blackberries and raspberries are available at all of the stores and several roadside stands. We are buying them by the flat and freezing those we can't eat now. Our own blackberries are a later variety. Can't wait as they taste very much like what I am used to back home.
Oh, and peaches. Our friends up the road are beginning to pick theirs.
We traded some fruit for photos of their trees.They'll be using the photos to help sell their place. Shame, but now in their mid and late sixties, I can't say I blame them.
Meant to call my Mom today. I heard Illinois got some rain. As the grass farmers here gradually moved out of grass into wheat, hazel nuts and grapes, meaning that those markets will soon be glutted, thousands of acres back home are at best silage. Expect rises in corn, beef, soybeans, swine and chicken commodities. Not that anyone but the traders will be getting rich off of it.
The corn here, too, sits burned in the field. Interestingly, the cotton, soybeans and sorghum look okay. Maybe the farmers irrigate them.
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The amount of rain we have had in Illinois has been minimal. At least the temperatures have gone down a bit at night.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom told me no, no rain. Plus a 150 acre field fire up the road a bit.
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