How does your garden grow? etc.

The day will be spent not at the office, nor working from home, but at a music workshop at the home of an acquaintance in the Hudson Valley, led by a well-known medieval-music professional. We've each taken a vacation day.

The raspberry vines behind the house are starting to produce, so we decided it was time to use up the last of the frozen raspberries from last summer. Made a panful of raspberry crumble bars (plus chocolate, because chocolate) to take to the music workshop and share. Unfortunately, I seem to have turned off the oven in the process of turning on the oven timer, so when the timer went off 40 minutes later, the crumble bars were warm, not cooked. So I turned the oven back on and gave them another 35 minutes (including the oven coming up to heat); hope they're done and not overdone.

Meanwhile, yesterday we picked at least another cup of tart cherries from the dwarf tree in front of the house. Not sure what to do with them yet. We still have almost a pint of the yummy tart-cherry-and-goat-cheese ice cream left from last year; perhaps turnovers, or a lattice-faced pie, or soup, or more ice cream....