First Batch of the Year

What a pleasant way to spend part of an afternoon. The sun is shining, it's 25ºC outside. There's a breeze blowing off the lake, rustling the leaves on the trees and into the front windows and out the kitchen windows.

I puttered in the kitchen making my first batch of jam of the year, Strawberry Rhubarb. Had a nice chat on the phone with the Lexiphage while I was stirring.

I ended up with six and a half jars of jam (make that five and half, Lexiphage claimed one) a clean kitchen and lots of time to play my fiddle this aft.

Note: The french horn experiment is moving along nicely. I've learned the fingering for eleven notes and can play Mary Had A Little Lamb and Go Tell Aunt Rhody (really badly!).