One time on Usenet, Melba's Jammin' <barbschaller@earthlink.net> said:
> In article <fat33t$206m_004@news.avvanta.com>,
> Little.Malice@gmail.communge (Little Malice) wrote:
>
> > I was thinking about you the other day -- Sister needs me to help
> > pick raspberries next week and we're going to make jam. I haven't
> > done any canning since I was a teen and used to help my Mom, so
> > I'm kind of looking forward to it. Sister is considering entering
> > some jams at the Puyallup Fair next year. I told her to go for it,
> > since you don't live here and won't be competing, she might have
> > a chance... ;-)
>
> Heh! Good luck on the raspberry jam. Our Fair gets more entries for
> raspberry and strawberry jams than for any other "regular" single-fruit
> lot. That I placed third for mine is sweet. There were 39 entries.
> Tell her to go for it ‹ it's fun to be on the "inside" of the whole
> experience.

I think she was planning to enter her tiny blackberry jam. It's to die
for, as good as Mom's. :-)

> I get my berries from Sister Julie -- she doesn't charge enough for them
> but, hey, she sets the price. (Kind of like Terri's wine ethics
> question.) I take all she will sell to me. She's going to raise her
> price next year and I'll take all she'll sell me then, too. I don't
> have to pick them.

Heck, if I didn't have to pick 'em, I'd pay for them too...

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Jani in WA