Apples are Ripe

The first apples of 2010 are ready.  I took  a bite of one yesterday and it was perfectly ripe, a little sweet and a little tart.

Here is an apple from each of the two trees near my house.  I spent a huge amount of time last year trying to identify what type of apples they are and had found some good web resources (I'll have to locate them again, since apparently I didn't keep the links).  The left apple is streaky over a greenish base, and the right apple is a darker, more solid red.  I think the right apple is a Macintosh, it's tart like that and cooks really well, but I never pinned down the left one.  Cortland maybe.  It got mushy and bland when cooked.  I've got maybe 2-3 other apple trees that bore fruit this year, the Golden Delicious tree, the grandpa tree made a few apples, and one other tree.

I took a container up to upper blueberry hill to pick what I could pick, but there's nothing left.  Blueberry season up and went without me.  I made ice cream, sold a few pints through Melanie, and had some friends over for pickin', but that's it.  I didn't save any this year.

The guy I was supposed to meet last Thursday postponed until later this week.  After that first really good phone call, he hasn't called or emailed.  Using the philosophy that if a guy likes you, you'll know; the fact that he hasn't called is a bad sign.  I've adjusted my hopes downward.  It's disappointing, but it's not productive to dwell.  I'm meeting someone else for lunch tomorrow, and someone else for dinner Weds.  I had originally refused to meet the Weds person using distance as an excuse, but changed my mind yesterday.  Yes, this whole thing is incredibly frustrating and time-consuming, but I believe that anything worthwhile is worth working for, and I'm willing to do the work.  Plus, it keeps me moving and not dwelling on might-have-beens with the goats, which is also worthwhile right now.