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Clouds In My Coffee

8/28/2019

9 Comments

 
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Such a morning!
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Clouds in my coffee and....
This morning, I was up early watering and I kept getting hit in the face with clouds.  Beautiful, cool, moist clouds on a day predicted to be sunny and warm.  I love the mountains so much - especially when things like this happen.  It was gone before I knew it and my day started and didn't stop until 12 hours later.  But I had this.  I carried this with me throughout the day.  
I spent the morning at the Farmer's Market in Westcliffe, encountering friends and vendors.  I have a cast iron dealer, a tamale dealer, a clean, lean Valley grown meat dealer, a CBD oil dealer, a Hippie Jelly dealer, a homemade pretzel roll dealer, and a peaches and cream corn dealer.  
After that I joined Cord at the latest greenhouse in Silvercliff and was present as the building inspector came to give Cord the green light on the foundation.  Of course, he was duly impressed with the quality of Cord's work.  He builds strong and true and it all passed with flying colors. They will pour the foundation on Friday with our sons helping of course.  
Cord then returned with me to the Farmer's Market - where he is considered a unicorn - a rare sighting - and he got to hug friends and talk shop and eat fresh, home-made jerky. (The salt is the 6th ingredient!) 
Just before we left, some brilliant guy named Bill appeared on the street with a truckload of clean, SEED GROWN fruit!  It was beautiful and perfect and inexpensive.  By the time I was done there were cases of glory - apples, pears, Italian plums and peaches, beautiful, beautiful peaches.  He was from Avondale and grew his 500 trees from seed so they adapt and are naturally selected - very little bug damage as they grow resistant to bugs and disease. We even graduated from the same high school!  We wheeled and dealed joyfully and I came home with the motherlode and WAY too much to do.  
We discussed making peach leather and he was so helpful.  I have only made it on parchment paper and he told me his delightful method.  He butters a large piece of glass, (like a sliding glass door size!), and then uses an industrial blender and pours the peach puree on the glass and spreads it out thin.  He surrounds the glass with fine screen attached to wood and places another piece of glass over the top to keep out the bugs and for aeration. Brilliant!  He was lovely and we loaded the car inspired.  
After lunch, Cord and I hurried home so I could grab Wulfgar and take him to the dentist in Salida.  I drove through the construction on the way there and he drove all the way back - (he's got a permit), while I gazed at the Arkansas River and the rocks and played John Denver all the way home.  
For dinner we had grilled, clean, lean, Valley-grown beef burgers (on pretzel rolls except for me - lettuce burger), and grilled, clean, in-the-husk Peaches and Cream Corn.  Oh my belly!  I should be in bed but all I can think about are those clouds...
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Took this with the flash - I'll fix it tomorrow!
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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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