I am in limbo right now. I have so many things to tell you all about but my mind just cannot settle to write. I am very busy gtting ready for my granddaughters arrival and all the things that go along with that. I am working on settling down and will be back on here regularly then. see you soon. xoxoxoxox
This picture is from July 2007. I found it in the picture file on here. Kinda cool looking back at all the pictures we have on here.
"Oh My ears and whiskers, how late it's getting." Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland
No worries... I just bought my plane ticket and we're "locked and loaded". I've got about a million things to do. As usual. I am one excited Grama!!!!! 
During the actual weather we had here the other evening this is what we were blessed with. A double rainbow. After a huge dinner of bbq we made our way to the backyard to check on the peaches and make sure everyone out there had water.
Our first harvest. An entire bowl full of the juiciest, sweetest peaches I have ever eaten. 
While picking ripe fruit we again checked on our little Gala apple tree and were surprised and elated to find 3 baby apples growing snug down amongst the leaves. There are still a few blossoms as well, so we may get a couple more.
Of course, we had to sample them and a few ended up sliced in my evening wine!!! YUMMMM
This is a sample of the BBQ we had. Along with this steak we had fresh green beans and rice. I'm telling you it wasn't while we were full from this meal that we decided the first bowl of peaches would be made into a pie.
This is my little pie bird. She has been waiting in the cupboard just for this occasion and she did a mighty fine job keeping everything in the pie, even though I filled it way to full with filling. But I quote " You can never have to much filling" guess who........?
Oh My Gosh... Peach pie has always been my favorite, but this was the best durn pie EVER!!!
We had a piece every single night with ice cream and we even had it for breakfast.
This being my first plum jam, I had a few new techniques to use. Although I have done this with tomatoes and peaches I had never used this method on plums. Simply dip the plums a few at a time into boiling water, then quickly plunge them into ice water and the skins just slip away!!! Here they are hot tubbin'.
They are like precious little jewels. So sweet and juicy. The colors were gorgeous, like a summer sunrise.
I was searching for a recipe and contemplating several, but most of the ones I found used other fruits and the purist in me couldn't handle that right now. hahahahaha I mean I was already substituting 1/2 with store bought. I have to thank Lisa, for encouraging me to go ahead and make it. She told me she used the recipe right off the sure gel box and I highly recommend it! This is the BEST!!! Pretty darn sweet, cause it uses a heck of a lot of sugar. but it jam for heaven's sake, You only use a teaspoon on your toast, right? :) hee hee.
My little peach tree has out done herself this year. I got a grand total of 6 peaches last year which were hastily consumed... but this year I'm gonna get some jam!!!! YAY!!!!!
Aren't they amazing!