fruit-share delivery day!

for the last year, steve and i have been keeping a pretty low profile. we are both working on books which takes enormous mental energy, and we also had our youngest, joseph, graduating from high school and doing the whole college selection thing, which takes enormous patience and emotional energy. and in addition, i am the primary care-giver for my 86 year old mom, who had one hell of a year medically. so…most nights, we are in bed by 9:30, and asleep by 10. woohoo!  anyway, i digress a bit. what i wanted to say, that while it was a fairly unremarkable year for us, one remarkable thing we did do was find a fruit-share truck that delivers fresh seasonal fruit, direct from the farmer, to the twin cities, every month. it has been such an enormous pleasure for our household. those of you living in california and florida may not be able to fully grasp what truly-fresh seasonal fruit in winter means to us northerns. some of you may be thinking “but don’t grocery stores have fruit all year long?” yes, yes they do. but that is often fruit was picked way too early, so it can hold up to extended shipping and storage, and then ripened artificially with with exposure to ethylene gas. which means…it generally lacks flavor. sometimes, it lacks so much flavor from not being able to ripen in the sun to maturity, that if you blindfolded yourself, you would be hard pressed to know what you were eating. any, i digress again. today, our fruit share arrived. it looked like this. it makes us enormously happy.

selection of winter fruits: star fruit, pears, apples, limes, kiwi, lemons, grapefruits, persimmons, oranges and tangerines, pomegranate, and blackberries