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Sep. 21st, 2005 01:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickDamn, look at the time, would you?
I was planning to spend a quiet evening deconstructing my favorite parts of Utena (yes, yes, everyone is now aware of how thoroughly I lust after the middle section of the show but... elevator of DOOM! What's not to like? Plus we finally get Akio zooming about in his red car of s3x0r. I like that a lot, too. Akio is such a slut bastard.) but that was before Liss called at 9:30 (PM, that would be, on a work night) to tell me she'd picked her (ordinary, Concord) grapes and also a slew of the interesting, tiny wild grapes, the size of what would be huckleberries if anyone besides me were familiar with such things.
See, we saw the interesting, tiny grapes on the way to Odie's this past weekend. They're native slipskin grapes, not an escaped breed of grape like Concords sometimes spread. This I know because each grape was about the size of a pencil eraser on a standard #2 pencil. Not kidding. They were teeny. They were hard. They were puckery and foxy enough that I had a bit of an itch in the back of my throat after trying one out. Interesting. And I, in my foolishness, said "I'd kind of like to see what kind of jelly I could make out of those." Stupid, stupid, STUPID. (Note to self: Do not say these things where other people can hear you.)
I drove to her house, picked up the grapes, and rendered them into juice. I kept the juice seperate so that there is juice-from-my-grape and juice-from-her-grapes and wild-grape-juice. I figure it's a bit like being a vintner, only with solid grape end products. I have four liters of juice-from-my-grape. I have two liters and a pint (ran out of liter containers, to be honest) of juice-from-her-grapes. And I have one liter of wild-grape-juice. She'll take her jelly and probably half of the wild stuff if it's halfway edible. I'm going to have thirteen pints of fucking grape jelly for my own self without getting into the wild stuff (initial tastings are promising on that front). I am a household of one. How much fucking jelly do you people think I can eat in a year?
I was planning to spend a quiet evening deconstructing my favorite parts of Utena (yes, yes, everyone is now aware of how thoroughly I lust after the middle section of the show but... elevator of DOOM! What's not to like? Plus we finally get Akio zooming about in his red car of s3x0r. I like that a lot, too. Akio is such a slut bastard.) but that was before Liss called at 9:30 (PM, that would be, on a work night) to tell me she'd picked her (ordinary, Concord) grapes and also a slew of the interesting, tiny wild grapes, the size of what would be huckleberries if anyone besides me were familiar with such things.
See, we saw the interesting, tiny grapes on the way to Odie's this past weekend. They're native slipskin grapes, not an escaped breed of grape like Concords sometimes spread. This I know because each grape was about the size of a pencil eraser on a standard #2 pencil. Not kidding. They were teeny. They were hard. They were puckery and foxy enough that I had a bit of an itch in the back of my throat after trying one out. Interesting. And I, in my foolishness, said "I'd kind of like to see what kind of jelly I could make out of those." Stupid, stupid, STUPID. (Note to self: Do not say these things where other people can hear you.)
I drove to her house, picked up the grapes, and rendered them into juice. I kept the juice seperate so that there is juice-from-my-grape and juice-from-her-grapes and wild-grape-juice. I figure it's a bit like being a vintner, only with solid grape end products. I have four liters of juice-from-my-grape. I have two liters and a pint (ran out of liter containers, to be honest) of juice-from-her-grapes. And I have one liter of wild-grape-juice. She'll take her jelly and probably half of the wild stuff if it's halfway edible. I'm going to have thirteen pints of fucking grape jelly for my own self without getting into the wild stuff (initial tastings are promising on that front). I am a household of one. How much fucking jelly do you people think I can eat in a year?
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Date: 2005-09-21 05:48 am (UTC)I made wild grape jelly tonight, myself. And I had four quarts, and came out with four teensy jars...
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Date: 2005-09-21 05:49 am (UTC)How much fucking jelly do you people think I can eat in a year?
you clearly need a kid.
(why am *i* up at this time? you'll have to take that up with the nice folks at Verizon, who decided to take out 5 DS3s at the same time on us...)
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Date: 2005-09-22 04:12 am (UTC)