It was interesting to make pomegranate juice at home. What a process! Peeling the fruit and taking out the segments was the most time consuming. But in keeping with organic processes, I spread out a section of the newspaper on the table and did the peeling there. At the end of it, all that needed to be done was to gather up the paper and take the whole bundle to the compost. I felt a sense of dejavu with the Reynolds aluminium foil commercial!

The juicing process was not complex, a good Cuisinart blender did the trick and the color was simply gorgeous. A rich, strong majenta. The taste was lip puckering, cheek-sucking-in tart; but a little bit of sugar went a long way in neutralizing the tartness.

And at the end of it all, my heart was delighted to add the ground up fruit mush to the compost. I don't know who is more happy, me or the wrigglers in the compost bed at this moist addition. Oh, the simple pleasures of life.

On a recent trip to Lincoln, Nebraska, I bought a bunch of berry twigs at the famous Hay Market to dress up a room. The corkscrew willow has rooted in the water and it will get planted today. Today is the day to propogate some jasmine runners, plant the willow and get pots ready for banana transplants. I love plant propogation, something beautiful about seeing new life spring forth.

So, I am off to plant-propogate and till next time,
rvgreen?