Day 287: Plans for a hike yesterday jinked wildly off track when I took down the can of Deep Woods Off, only to discover that the container had sprung a leak and the contents had liquified the paint on the shelf where it was stored, combining to produce a compound similar in look and feel to sour cream. After cleaning up the mess and wondering if it might not be better to sacrifice a few pints of blood to mosquitoes than to put DEET on my hide, I opted for a trip to town instead. My alternate plan didn't exactly follow the course either, but once I'd settled the mental debate over apricots vs. marionberries, a bag containing five pounds of individually-selected vine ripe fruit made any further deviations from the line of travel indisputable. The next several hours were spent in producing sixteen half-pints of delicious apricot-pineapple jam, the pineapple supplying just the right amount of acidity to balance the heavy sweetness of the apricots. You won't find the recipe in any cookbook. It's a Crow special. Nothing goes better on homemade bread than hand-crafted jams and jellies. In fact, it would be downright criminal to spread commercial jam on homemade English muffins.
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