South of the Equator

I live in the northern hemisphere where summer is in July and winter is January. And, like the vast majority of humans who also live above the equator, I have a tendency to forget about the reversal of seasons that happens as you travel south. (or, to be objective, the reversal that happens as you travel north if your home happens to be in Christchurch).

All of this is to explain why I was astonished, then pleased to find that there were cherries for sale in Costco the other day. Rainier Cherries to be exact. Looked and tasted pretty right allowing for the fact that they were not exactly picked this morning. My first thought was – HUH? and my second was to read the fine print on the label. Chile. Grown and picked in Chile – south of the equator where the end of spring is just rolling in. Duh.

This was otherwise a quiet day in which I stitched some, slept off a migraine and discovered after about two hours of stitching that using Pattern Keeper doesn’t prevent blatant stupidity. Uploading single pages is great. But the stitcher needs to pay attention to overlaps…. 200+ stitches to be frogged.

Photo updates on Friday.

 

 

*The website for the Senger House where we were yesterday is here.

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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5 Responses to South of the Equator

  1. Alison says:

    I was absolutely not going to go to Costco on Christmas Eve! But not only cherries, but Rainiers? You’re playing hard to get with my resolve here.

    • Holly says:

      Maybe they won’t have them there …. of course there are also grapes according to Bruce..

  2. Bruce says:

    We used to get fantastic winter produce in Saudi from Chile.

    Keep looking, they send out excellent tasting stuff. Don’t bypass the table grapes when available.

  3. Cat says:

    I don’t know what happened to the cherry crop here – I did manage to get two cherries on Christmas Day…. but then I am not exactly haunting the greengrocer or the supermarket right now

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