The most wonderful time of the year

[cosmolinguist]

The weather has been overcast and wet the last few days. But the strawberries still know that June is here.

Yesterday aft3rnoon V was outside inspecting the garden (as they do every day) and said the strawberries were a few hours away from being ripe.

And later, long after I'd forgotten they said this, they went out again and when they came back and handed me one red strawberry.

I ate it, delightedly. Well, I took a picture of it and then ate it. First Strawberry Day is like a holiday for me.

Today, when I was mired in work, they came in with a paper towel in their hand, which held another strawberry.

I told them I hoped they were getting some too. But only after I'd grabbed this one as well, heh. They said they hadn't yet.

I'm a little sheepish that my excitement about strawberries is so great that I am getting all the earliest fruits of their labor! But I know soon that there will be more of them in the fridge than any of us eat before more come along to join them.

Comments

[angelofthenorth]

There's something about really ripe, homegrown strawberries that can't be beaten!

[redbird]

If V wants you to get the first few ripe strawberries, that's reasonable. Adrian, Cattitude, and I sometimes do something similar, with a more explicit "no, you have it, you like them a lot more than I do." Any of us might say it to either of the other two, because even with a lot of foods that all three of us like, we don't have the same favorites within that.

[otter]

I feel like that about First Raspberry Day, which isn't quite here yet. <3

[crystalpyramid]

My sibling set "I Don't Want to Live A Small Life" as a round and it's one of my favorite things ever. Do you know the poem?


https://apoemaday.tumblr.com/post/643847170896887808/i-dont-want-to-live-a-small-life