A Day Off, Yet Keeping Busy

No reservation today so I had myself a leisurely start of the day. After enjoying coffee on the porch I got myself into the brambles.  Yup--- blackberry brambles that is. We are having the biggest harvest of blackberries I have ever seen. They can almost be picked like grapes.  I have already frozen many bags of blackberries, but today was time to make jelly. After boiling the berries and separating the juice I added sugar. The sweetened juice needs now to be brought to a roiling boil, until the juice doesn’t run off a spoon anymore. In the past we have added pectin but have all but abandoned that practice now. While the juice was boiling I heated water to sterilize the jars. The result of all that work was 5 jars of nice blackberry jelly. The action was followed by some lawn mowing and some office work. Driftwood Art at Jocie’s Porch Since it was Friday, we went to Jocie’s Porch for some music listening. Friar’s Bay is always showing a wonderful sunset, and of course, I had to take some pictures again. The other day, while I was waiting for my passengers to return to the bus, I took a walk through the Roosevelt Park at the Visitor Center. Again they have done an excellent job with all the flowers.