gnatweds

Sorry about the radio silence folks; we had a interesting weekend, which therefore precluded any vim left to blog (okay okay, its an excuse).

First up: on Saturday morning, we went... uh.... raspberry picking.

Now, now, do NOT break into song about "cotton pickin'" etc etc.
And it could have been strawberries too, but we missed the season by a week.
In September you can go to the farm and pick grapes, but apparently the grapes are seeded and the skins are hard to eat and stuff, so... despite them being "very flavourful"... hummm.

Can't help it, am becoming lazier in my mid life.

The fruit farm is not far from the main town area either, maybe all of 20 minutes' drive. There, you are handed six punnets and let loose in the raspberry orchard. The ripe ones should come off the plant easily. The trick is to dig in and get the ones hidden inside the bushes.

They are pretty aren't they? And if you do get the ripe ones, they can be really sweet. I suppose it was quite fun, especially considering how darned expensive raspberries are back home - and more often then not, they're pretty squished by the time they reach your local Cold Storage. But they are quite perfect here - except (big BIG "except" here) I plucked some and then noticed there was a green worm crawling on them. Freaked out, dropped the bunch, and have refused to eat any since. Will maybe try some later.

The berry-picking conspirators. ;)

Gene doing his inspection of berry thing.

It was HOT though. Like back-in-Singapore type hot. And it was blazing yesterday, felt like the moisture was getting baked out of me.

But today, there's cloud cover and I would like nothing better than to curl up with some hot tea.

Schizo, I tell you, this place is.

Then, on Sunday, we went to this Outlet mall called Albertville about 2 hours away. It was FUN! Outlet malls = discounts. Add 4th of July sales, and it becomes really cheap.

Ladies: I got Nine West shoes for between 15 and 20 US a pop. ie: I went nuts. Bought t-shirts, slippers, kitchen equipment, hair products, Banana Republic, Bed and Bath Works, Polo Ralph etc etc! Will post more another time - spent too much time on this one already and its my clean-house day because Eugene's at his first day of work.

PS: Ping, this is the diet ice cream. It really isn't half bad. It tastes like ice-cream! And just as sweet as the regular stuff. Really!