Hattie Watering
Watering Can
There has been no rain for a long time here and we are on watering restrictions already. Hattie has been making many trips out to the strawberry pots with her watering can…
One Berry
Her perseverance has resulted in one more berry… the berries are only ripening one at a time…
Three girls
…so for the sake of peace in the Hitty cupboard, it is lucky that the local raspberries are now ripe and in the store!
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Quimper Hittys 
The Wiregrass Hitties feel for you, Hattie! Our white strawberries are only producing one small berry at a time as well…though the birds might be culpable in the shortage…Still, it is a lovely berry – if lonely.
One at a time is rather tortuous for the Humans, but Hattie doesn’t mind too much – at least this way she doesn’t have to slave over the woodstove making strawberry preserves! What does a white strawberry taste like?
Lucky for Hittys that a single berry can give each one a taste. We big folk have to resort to imagination in such situations.
It is lucky! The humans think the lack of strawberry situation is pretty dire around here, and are not as imaginative (nor, it must be confessed persevering enough) as Hattie. We are all anticipating the raspberry crops with glee.
May the sweet gentle rains fall upon your lands….
Your magical hopings worked! It is raining sweetly and gently today for the first time in a month and a half! Good thing we didn’t hang the laundry out!
I am so glad that the rains came… they are such a blessing!
No matter the circumstances, it’s wonderful to see such smiles and fun in the QH household members faces.
Strawberries, actually any fresh berries, bring smiles to the Quimper Hittys! we can’t help ourselves!
Which reminds me…I have to go out and water my raspberries!
well done Hattie on your perseverance.
I hope your raspberries thrive and produce lots of fruit, and that you have lots of clotted cream handy with which to eat them!
Hattie and her watering can are quite fetching. So sorry to hear of your water restrictions.. .Here at the farm we are squelching…so much rain!! Our strawberries are standing in water…Hope some will come your way.
It actually did rain today 2 mm though we weren’t expecting any, and it won’t make any changes in the restrictions! Maybe your Hittys will need to pick berries from a raft!