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[Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>]

hi all, 
haven't posted anything here since last spring when I was trying to put in a 
raised garden bed using strawbales.  Spouse was being excessively obstructive 
so I gave up for this year.  I'm still plotting on getting that raised bed in 
before next spring though, and I'm subversively getting my neighbors on board 
for getting their own gardens in for next year (I do believe we will all be 
needing them, as the current economic crisis steamrolls along**).
 
Thought I'd introduce something other than politics, so here goes.
 
I made like a bee last spring and handpollinated a lot of our fruit trees, 
since our local bees were few in number and pretty sluggish (I'm hoping my 
newly-installed mason bees will take over next year).  Since no good deed 
goes unpunished, I was rewarded with a bumper crop of all sorts of fruit, 
which I either canned or took to the local food bank.  One of the trees 
turned out to be a crabapple which is now rewarding me with a few boxes of 
fruit.  I'm trying out making crabapple liquer with some of them and I 
pickled a bunch, but I still have dozens of pounds of fruit left.
 
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH CRABAPPLES???
 
I need ideas!  Points for silliness, in addition to usefulness.
 
off to start another batch of crabapple likker...
 
-Rebecca in the great NorthWet (we're expecting a deluge tonight on top of 
all the rain we've had this week)
**speaking of the economic crisis, I highly recommend a daily visit to George 
Ure's website, UrbanSurvival.  I've been following him for two years now and 
his advice is spot-on.  He's in cahoots with some guys in Olympia, WA, who 
devised a "predictive linguistics" software program.  It sounds like voodoo, 
but they get pretty good information out of it, and it helps to have a 
headsup.  It saved our 401K...
 
 
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