{"id":7707,"date":"2019-12-10T21:43:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T04:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/sometimes-life-gives-you-lemons\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T23:35:43","slug":"sometimes-life-gives-you-lemons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/sometimes-life-gives-you-lemons\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, Life Gives You Lemons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/laden-lemon-tree.jpg' title='Dwarf Lemon Tree'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/laden-lemon-tree.jpg' alt='Dwarf Lemon Tree' width='250' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lemon-barrow.jpg' title='Harvested Lemons'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lemon-barrow.jpg' alt='Harvested Lemons' width='250' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Late last week, the Damsel and I picked most of the lemons from our dwarf lemon tree west of the house by the RV Drive. For a &#8220;dwarf&#8221; tree, I&#8217;d say, it has reliably produced a large number of lemons each year since we had it planted seven or eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We normally give some of the lemons to neighbors and a couple of senior centers here in town, and use the rest of them to produce <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Limoncello\">Limoncello<\/a>, an Italian &#8220;digestivo&#8221; after dinner liquor. Damsel uses a recipe form an on-line website modified to use diabetic sweetener rather than sugar. We can&#8217;t tell the difference in the end.<\/p>\n<p>This year, however, we have a surplus of both lemons and Limoncello, so we&#8217;re going to give most of the crop away and juice some for another couple of uses. We don&#8217;t have any trouble finding friends, neighbors and food banks locally to dispose of them for good uses.<\/p>\n<p>Just for a lark, I put together the little graphic below to leverage on an old adage about life giving you lemons . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191209-make-limoncello.jpg' title='Make Limoncello'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191209-make-limoncello.jpg' alt='Make Limoncello' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on any image above to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Late last week, the Damsel and I picked most of the lemons from our dwarf lemon tree west of the house by the RV Drive.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,43,49,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-food-dining","category-home-garden","category-notions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8607,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}