Time capsule

[posted by risa] "Look what I found while I was cleaning out the office." I glanced at the tattered, yellowed pages in Beloved's hand -- and did a double take. "Whoa! This is the records from the old homestead! Can I post these?" "Sure; they're a window into another world." "When We Were Young." "And a lot stronger and more productive than we are now, apparently!" So, here you go, Dear Readers. A Bear Family time capsule:

1978
Blkberry jam		8 qts
Strawberry jam		12 qts
pickled Beets		6 qts
sweet pickles		42 qts [!!]
dill pickles		7 qts
dill carrots		3 qts
relish		3 pints
tomatoes		25 qts [?]
zucchini		13 qts
1979
Apple Puree		9 [qts?]
Apple sauce		7
Apple butter		8 pints
plum pieces		19 qts
Blk Berry Puree		3
Strawberry Sauce/Puree		14 qts
1980
Strawberry	2 flats	freezer 15 qts	11.50
Raspberry	4 flats	freezer 23 1 1/2 pints 2 qrts 1 qrt [?]	26.00
U-pick cherries	55 lbs	canned 35 qts rest eaten fresh	13.50
Applesauce	1 grocery bag	7 qts 6 pints
Applebutter	1 1/2 grocery bags
Blkberry		freeze 17 1.5 pints
peaches	80 lbs	canned 63 quarts	20.00
greenbeans	2 rows	Royal purple freeze	20 pints
broccoli	2 rows	13 qts froze
dill pickles	7 qts	canned
chutney	3 pts	Green Tom canned
relish	7 pts	canned
apple B	7 pts	"
Pear B	5 pts	"
sweet pickles	4 pts	"
plums	18 qts canned
plum sauce	17 qts, 6 pts
plum juice	3 qts
14 qts	Applesauce transparent
10 qts	Blk jam
12 pts	Blk jam
5 qts	corn - frozen
10 qts	greens - frozen
1/2 dear [sic]	30 lbs
1/2 salmon	8 lbs	(1/2 for 1981) [?]
6 sea fish	30 lbs	[rockfish and lingcod]
1/2 pig	50 lbs	(1/2 was 1979)
1/4 cow	120 lbs
Green Sprouting Broccoli	excellent
Royal Purple	good for pickling, excellent taste
Runner beans	not prolific -- encourage up poles
Butternut Squash	start earlier	10 small
sugar pumpkins	excellent	one dozen to store
market cukes	ok
Pickling cukes	ok
lemon cukes	ok
Red cabbage	excellent
Blk Simson lettuce	excellent -- planted directly
chicl [?] lettuce	excellent -- planted directly
sucram carrots	small, sweet
scarlet keelper carrots	Larger, not quite as tasty
Dear [sic] tongue	terrific, stood light frost
Kupo4 [??] carrots	ok
Sp. [spaghetti] Squash	fine	dozen to store
1981
goat	one	freeze	30 lbs free
salmon	1/2	freeze	8 lbs free
cow	1/4	freeze	125 lbs - 168.00
1982
dear [sic]	one	freeze	60 lbs free
cow	one	freeze	370 lbs 293.00
pig	one	freeze	47 lbs 79.00

The "dear" may seem small but they were Coast Range Blacktail bucks, notable for being much, much smaller than Eastern Whitetails. Even the ones that have been raiding our garden this year are considerably larger, presumably because the smaller size of the mountain Blacktails is to their advantage in the extremely dense rainforest vegetation there. "Deer tongue" is a lettuce. I think. Not listed are the dozens of cottontails that graced our tables in 1978 and 1979. Their population had exploded, and there was no rabbit fence around the garden. So they took what they wanted from us, and we took from them accordingly. A fair exchange, it seemed to us at the time. Still does... -30-