plums – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 19 Feb 2016 05:34:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 The satisfaction https://orangette.net/2014/10/the-satisfaction/ https://orangette.net/2014/10/the-satisfaction/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:02:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/the-satisfaction In early September, a kind reader in north-central Idaho left me a comment. Her name was Michele, and her Italian prune plum tree was promising a bumper crop: did I want some? This kind of thing does not happen all the time, or ever, so I said (yelled) yes. That is how it came to pass that last week, a box showed up on our stoop, containing almost ten pounds of plums cushioned in bubble wrap. I hauled it to the table and let it sit there for a couple of days, admiring it like an expensive flower arrangement, patting it softly like June’s head, before getting down to work over the weekend, freezing a pound of halved plums for…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/10/the-satisfaction/feed/ 71 No frosting, no ceremony https://orangette.net/2011/09/no-frosting-no-ceremony/ https://orangette.net/2011/09/no-frosting-no-ceremony/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:04:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/no-frosting-no-ceremony We left our window open last night, and when I woke up today, there was rain on the sill! I am wearing a scarf that I made! Let the hoarding of plums commence! What I thought about saying next was, “The citrus is coming! The citrus is coming!” (In the privacy of my own head, I spout this kind of garbage the way Old Faithful does boiling water.) I decided against it, but during the thirty seconds when I was considering and then reconsidering, I remembered a walk I took with the dog a few weeks ago. A little boy down the street was having a birthday party, and from the skull-and-crossbones flags tied to the laurel hedge along the…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2011/09/no-frosting-no-ceremony/feed/ 302 Because there was a bag of plums https://orangette.net/2010/10/because-there-was-a-bag-of-plums/ https://orangette.net/2010/10/because-there-was-a-bag-of-plums/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:53:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/because-there-was-a-bag-of-plums I took this picture on an excellent afternoon. It was a Saturday. I had just met a deadline that I had been dreading. I was immensely relieved. Two of our best friends were in town for a visit, two friends who moved here a couple of years ago and became sort of like family, but then they found jobs and gigs in other cities, so they moved away. But they were in town on this particular day, and we had stayed up late the night before, and the night before that, and now it was late afternoon. Bonnie had a concert, and Ben was driving her to rehearsal, and Brandon was at the restaurant, and I was home alone. Because…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2010/10/because-there-was-a-bag-of-plums/feed/ 119 What I do now https://orangette.net/2009/09/what-i-do-now/ https://orangette.net/2009/09/what-i-do-now/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:37:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/what-i-do-now So, I wasn’t kidding about the black hole. But I’m sorry to have been gone from here for so long. I’ve missed you. Delancey is getting easier. As of two weeks ago, we now have a prep cook to work in the mornings, which means that instead of going in at 9 am to receive the first deliveries, Brandon can now go in around 11 am, and I go in sometime between noon and 2 pm, depending on the day’s prep list. We still get home around midnight, but it feels a lot easier than it did a couple of weeks ago. We’re getting more sleep, for one thing, but even more importantly, we know what to expect now. That’s…

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