This week it has been all about apricots. Last weekend Shaun saw a post on facebook from a woman in our ward saying they had tons of apricots on their tree and first come first serve. Well you know how we are about free fruit, recall our peaches adventures from last year. So Shaun was out the door in about 5 minutes hoping to beat everyone else there. He had his fruit picker in hand, ready to get the ones no one else can reach. He was so excited about fruit tree season (I'm sure there is a better term, but you get the idea) this year that he bought this contraption on amazon that extends at least 10 feet so no fruit goes to waste. He couldn't wait to try it out. And apparently it works because he came home with a bunch of fruit. Then Monday the family with the apricot tree sent an email to the ward broadcasting their apricots. Shaun was devastated and thought they would be all gone by the time he could get back. We have seen/talked to three people who went picking, and heard about more. One of which also stayed up until 1 am making jam. But as a testament to this tree Shaun went back again and got more than the first time. Yeah for the fruit picker! He also went to a tree on a vacant lot and picked, but they hadn't been watered and were really small. I don't know how much fruit he picked, but over the course of two late nights we made 20 small containers of freezer jam, 5 quarts, and about 10 pints of bottled apricots. What do you do with bottled apricots you say? Make apricot nectar of course! You'll have to ask Shaun's grandma about it. All I know is you make it from bottled apricots and Shaun loves it.
Oh and Shaun also made some grape jelly too, just because we were already in the middle of it and of course we weren't busy enough.
What are we going to do with all of this jam?! Anyone want some?
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