"PRESERVE" THE GNOMES!

I spent the day making fruit preserves, which I will go into detail about in a minute, but first I want to discuss the coolest group I have EVER heard about. EVER.

MOUVEMENT DE LIBERATION DU NAIN DE JARDIN
The movement for the liberation of garden gnomes... a group of society of people who go out at night and take gnomes from peoples homes, place them in open fields and such, then leave a note for the owner letting them know where their gnome was freed. There have been thousands of gnomes freed. I reallllllly want to join. It is hilarious and fabulous.

Also, something that has a similar guerrilla tactic that my sister recently informed me about is Guerilla Gardening - people in cities that go at night to abandoned lots and replant them to be beautiful or to make community gardens. Anyone interested??

Preserves. Okay... today was a long day. We started by boiling between 8 and 12 lbs of fruit (of the following: blueberries, mangoes, apricots, and figs) with almost an equivalent amount of evaporated cane sugar. The kitchen was HOT and smelled FABULOUS. Between making sure the pots didn't stick or boil over, I sterilized jars and once the fruit was cooked, Renee filled them. She literally just uses fruit and sugar, boils the jars to seal them and then it lasts for a few years, unopened (trust me, I have some on toast every morning and they are all delish!) After doing that all day we were tired so we had dinner and drank a few glasses of wine..... and then realized we had to go put in the single chicken that wouldn't go in her coop before dinner. So, guided just by Renee's headlamp we headed into the dark and proceeded to make tipsy fools of ourselves running and diving after this darn hen. We eventually managed to pin her down and giggled ourselves back to the house. Now I am tired and we start bright and early again tomorrow by moving all the coops to a new pasture...