Was cleaning the "frog" tank Saturday morning and our albino was sucked through the vacuum. He seemed OK but I put him in a large 8-quart batter bowl and added a small air pump. Sunday afternoon he still seemed fine, so he was moved back to his home tank. This morning, I sadly found he had left the coil. I am very careful when vacuuming but this fella always seemed attracted to the vacuum mouth for some unknown reason, and it was not his first trip through the pipe. Turned out to be his last,
This morning we are heading to the Menands Wholesale Market for fruit and vegetables. Our garden is very small this year, purposely, so we will need to purchase any veggies we choose to put up. We also buy peaches each year for freezing as pie chunks and also canning a similar to apple sauce. We get our apples pears, mulberry and boysenberry from our own trees as the fruit matures. Also, our berries -- strawberry, blackberry, raspberry and blueberry.
Today we will be buying a crate (dozen heads) of cauliflower, a crate of peaches. and asparagus. The cauliflower and asparagus will be processed tonight in the new summer kitchen. The peaches sometime this week.