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Today I had two objectives. Go to Melinda's to pick up a huge pot to put my Meyer Lemon in and to have lunch with my sister. It actually shook down like this. My sister Jess came to the store and we had lunch together. Then I headed over to Melinda's to pick up the huge pot. On the kitchen counter she had a loaf of French Bread. She offered me bread with goat cheese and topped with her fig preserves. OMG. It has been a week of delicious food experiences. It was so good. She then gifted me a jar of her raspberry and lavender jam. Melinda doesn't use pectin. I am going to try that. Then we went for a walk with two containers to pick blackberries as we walked. It is such a great blackberry year in this area. We found some ripe rose hips too. It was a beautiful walk with a beautiful friend. At the end, she gave me all the blackberries. So generous. I will try the no pectin way of making jam!! When we returned to Melinda's house, she made a pot of tea for us. She had some local honey for my tea. Yum again.
As I was preparing to leave to go back to the store, she gave me a lovely bouquet of Sweet Peas.
I drove off feeling very content. I turned at Wain Road which takes you past Meadowoak Nursery. I thought, I'm just going to pull in and see if they have any Wooly Thyme. They did! I got several to put in the dead patch of lawn at the front. I spotted what looked like a small fig tree. She confirmed it was. It was not a variety I was familiar with. She asked what I was looking for. I told her I was looking for a Peter's Honey Fig. She said she had some that weren't out yet. She brought several out and I chose one. It is quite small. It's about two feet tall and it has the tiniest little fig on it. It thought if it could make a fig at that size it would be a prolific fruiting tree.
I returned to the store and was looking at the fig as I got out of the car. Which led my brain right to 'now all I need is the lemonnnnnnnn....oh no.....I forgot the pot. Damn.'
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