Hurricane Harvest!

Bella Donna, Barbie and I gathered bushels of produce on Saturday. It was during the hurricane rains we were experiencing. We gathered peppers, tomatoes, beans, plums, raspberries, and applies. I also had one scary moment when climbing atop a large plum tree. The fruit is always sweetest top down on plum trees- but getting up their during such adverse weather - with no gloves, soaked with rain, when the branches are absolutely lethal slippery - was probably not the smartest thing to do. At left is me and Barbie, then me atop the tree in the torrential rain, and finally - SUCCESS! Plums! Hooray! We got a whole bushel! :)

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