Up to get this last day of August started. It is cloudy and looks like rain is on it's way here from hurricane Ida. I got chores done then had breakfast. After I ate I went up to the loaded grape vines and picked a big bowl full before it rains on them again to make another run of grape juice.
First sign of Fall today as hubbie is blowing leaves out of the driveway. This Lumbardy Poplar tree is always the first to drop it's huge leaves.
Daughter dropped off CA and picked me up to go with her to IR's "meet the teacher" session at her pre-school . We met son-in-love there also and IR went right in and acted fine with the teachers and other kids. Mask are mandatory for adults but the kids can choose. IR said she is wearing hers because of her baby sister. She wasn't the only kid in her class room today that had a mask on. These are terrible crazy times !! After the meet the teach we picked up lunch for #2 son and d-in-love-Tif and went there to visit and let them see EA for the first time. Tif is feeling much better thankfully and we had a nice visit. Daughter dropped me off home and went to her house to meet up with Kristen who was bringing them dinner. I started getting this big bowl of grapes ready for juice making.
I made these 15 pints of juice in about an hour. I opened one of the previous jars just to test the sweetness because I didn't put the amount of sugar the recipe called for in the jars. These grapes are so sweet I knew they didn't need that much sugar to sweeten them. The juice was very good and still very sweet so I cut the sugar even more in this batch. Just as I took these jars out of the canners the rain stopped and I saw on the radar we were in a break from the heavy rain so we got chores done a little early. There was already 1/2 inch of rain in the gauge from the rain of this afternoon and the heaviest rain is due in here tonight. This hurricane season is starting out to be rough on our area but thankfully the next 2 named storms , Julian and Kate pose no threat.
Thankfully we aren't looking for too much bad weather from this system and we are looking forward to some "fall" feeling low temps at night coming up this week.
Got a call from d-in-love-A tonight saying g-son has been exposed to someone at school who tested positive for the covid virus. He is showing no symptoms now so hopefully he doesn't get it. He is very upset that he is out of school for the rest of the week and can't be tested until Monday. If he test negative he can go back to school on Tuesday. We are just praying he doesn't get the virus. Thankful for the blessings of this day .
God Bless and Good Night
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