{"id":420,"date":"2010-01-06T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2010-01-06T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T02:12:32","slug":"grapey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Grapey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my bowl of <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=356\">wild grapes<\/a>, harvested from the rose corner?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/fall20090920-1.jpg\" alt=\"grapes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The juice spent some time in the freezer, but finally became a very small dish of not-quite-gelled-enough grape jelly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/grape20091231-1.jpg\" alt=\"grape jelly\"><\/p>\n<p>It maybe more like heavy syrup than jelly, but it tastes awfully good.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/grape20091231-2.jpg\" alt=\"grape jelly\"><\/p>\n<p>Still, I pruned all the vines out of the rosebushes. It was a fun experiment, but not worth the hassle. Though it&#8217;s time to start planning for new acquisitions for the garden&#8230; grapes? Or maybe blueberries. I can tell it&#8217;s the middle of winter when the seed catalogs start showing up to tempt me. <\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m here, I&#8217;ve got a pile of things that have been accumulating. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone else who makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfnovelists.com\/2010\/01\/04\/day-late-dollar-short-or-how-i-make-new-years-resolutions\/\">goals instead of resolutions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Photos of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/raela\/sets\/72157622973488645\/\">Jane Bostocke sampler<\/a> (1598) from the V&#038;A Museum. Apparently if you visit you can see it up close and personal. <\/li>\n<li>A forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boehlau.de\/978-3-412-20482-2.html\">book on medieval clothing<\/a>: <i><br \/>\nKleidung im Mittelalter; Materialien \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Konstruktion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c N\u00c3\u00a4htechnik: Ein Handbuch<\/i>, by Katrin Kania. I saw the original dissertation this is based on, and if you are at all serious about costuming you will want this. <\/li>\n<li>Rodrick Owen is teaching at The Mannings, East Berlin PA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-mannings.com\/mannings_catalog.cgi?dwew=on&#038;ad=4716&#038;tt=742\">April 10-11<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yatzer.com\/2075_wooden_textiles_add_a_new_dimension\">Wooden fabric<\/a>.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wooden-textiles-by-elisa-strozyk-yatzer_1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden fabric\" title=\"Wooden-textiles-by-elisa-strozyk-yatzer_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wooden-textiles-by-elisa-strozyk-yatzer_1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wooden-textiles-by-elisa-strozyk-yatzer_1.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wooden fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my bowl of wild grapes, harvested from the rose corner? The juice spent some time in the freezer, but finally became a very small dish of not-quite-gelled-enough grape jelly. It maybe more like heavy syrup than jelly, but it tastes awfully good. Still, I pruned all the vines out of the rosebushes. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}