Thursday, 17th September 2009

Jackson, our new family member

Our family rose lately tremendous. The object in discussion is 14 weeks old, has a length of 42 cm – the weight is unknown as my scale is out of order. The hair is soft like velvet – the colour is white and black or if you like, black and white.
My children are enthusiastic, similar are feeling my husband and myself about the “little something”.
And I think he is feeling really well in our family with all the nice plants, well tended-furniture and colourful curtains with which he likes to play in his inimitable destructive way. I am talking about “Jackson”, our new young cat. The kids are of the opinion he is “cool”, so do I. But on the other side he loves very much to cuddle. This attribute helps him to withstand effectively all the love-attacks of my children.
They tell him when he has to go for a slash (even if he has no need), they feel when he is hungry (even he does not want anything) and they know when he is tired (even if he is not) and should share the bed with them. Yes, my kids present a large quantity of feelings the last days. But Jackson seems to like all these activities around him or at least he tolerates it. And we try to tolerate all his childish destructive ways of playing, destroying the plants, the curtains and the furniture on his way to grow up.

Beside all that “Jackson-fever” I am testing and creating new recipes.
Bettina, a friend of mine, brought yesterday a basket full of damsons which she got from her mother.
As the last year the  damson harvest was very poor I am now in full operation to use this wonderful fruit to bake cakes, fruit salads and jam.

This time I am going to combine damsons with sparkling wine.
Below I am showing the result:

Ingredients and directions: