Remember when I mentioned (ok, so it wasn’t all that) that it took forever to get through immigration in Seattle? The lovely couple standing behind me in line turned out to live in Oakland less than 20km from where I am calling home.
She mentioned that she had fig trees and did I want any? Figs? Fresh figs? Oh yes! Most of the time I am too cheap to buy the fresh ones. And dried figs are to figs what prunes are to plums. Trust me, a whole world of difference.
I stopped early afternoon today – and this is less than 15 minutes worth of picking directly off of the trees in her yard. From what I gathered, the original trees had belonged to her parents and were transplanted somewhere along the line.
I have been snacking on figs. They are ripe and need to be consumed in the next couple of days. Oh, poor me…
Otherwise –
All Hallow’s Eve is finished. No clue what I am going to do with it, but it is finished. For now, it has been added to the hangers on the back of my craft room door.
Tomorrow I am going to attempt to finish Emi, work on the Beaver and see to a couple more letters on TeaRex.
Thank you for your warning about US immigration being even slower than usual.
We’ll be arriving by boat in NYC on Oct. 27.
I hope we get off in time to go on our excursion to the One World Observatory.