Whew! We have been
so busy making orange marmalade there’s been no time to write. Currently we are
starting our fourth batch, but I’m taking a break while Dennis shreds the orange
peel.
Making marmalade
occasioned the need for a jam jar so we turned to our favorite estate sale shop
where nice kitchen things cost a pittance. (We have been there so often the
owner knows our names.) Sure enough, the perfect jar turned up. Cost: $1.
On the way to the
estate sale shop and other destinations we have been observing the re-tiling of
the roof of a large, three-story building. For a person who has acrophobia
(that’s me) watching the crew casually walking around the roof, carrying and
laying tiles was agony. Finally my suffering went away when I saw a lone worker atop the
completed roof.
Life hasn’t been
all business, though. We found time to have lunch at Wilko again and to walk
from there to the Arizona State Museum’s exhibition of a copy of the first
folio of Shakespeare’s plays. Walking through the University of Arizona’s
campus we came upon an allée lined with old olive trees. But that’s a story for
another day.
Back to the marmalade.
Copyright
2016 by Shirley Domer
Your $1 jam jar is beautiful with marmalade in it!
ReplyDeleteHi Shirley. You have inspired me! I have so many oranges I brought home and I think I will look up a recipe and use them to make marmalade. Sounds like all is well there. We are back in Durango. All the best.
ReplyDeleteI have worked out a perfect recipe, Kathleen, and will post it as soon as I've written then instructions.
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