July 22, 2010
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MISCELLANY:
*There is a reason they call it a cobbler….my attempt at a deep-dish peach pie is now cobbled.
One $10 box of very fresh peaches=15 pint jars of jam, (pings all heard!), a bowl of sliced peaches for supper, and a cobbler in the freezer for a special weekend coming up soon!
*It feels a little unsettling to know that your “child” is far away on the other side of the world.
She is no longer a child and is, in fact, being responsible for the children of other people at the moment. I just wish she would phone home! I guess she might be getting up about now…
*I used to think I wanted to write a book. I’ve spent hours and hours working (mentally) on a neat story. For years, I’ve plotted, replotted, characterized, developed, edited…and now, suddenly it doesn’t seem so appealing.
After spending the last few months working on a book that is a collection of other people’s stories, it feels like this might be my last book. It really isn’t mine; my friend thought it up. I’ve just helped. But, oh! does it take a lot of work to get it ready to print. I have a new, deeper appreciation for the process that takes an idea and follows it to the finish. It will be nice to hold this book in my hands…
*Some chickens are just natural sitters. Minnie is sitting again. Her babies that hatched in the spring are teen-agers now, gawky and noisy and with big appetites. Minnie has pushed them away, forcing them to look out for themselves, while she is completely focused on a new clutch of eggs. Patience is Minnie’s middle name…
*The Cardinals are back in the groove, even though they were too tired to hit today. It was just a little bobble. Such fun to watch this team! A little road trip to Busch is in the planning stages, but we need the weather to cool down first….
*A trip to the mailbox is such fun when it contains a missive from a grandchild. Emma has been at camp, and I got this update today:
Dear Mimi,
Hi!! Do you like this card? I did! How are the chicks?
Girl scout camp was so fun! Each night we did something fun! Here’s a list of the nightly activities: square dance night, talent show, spa night, olympic games, carnival night and other fun nights. We got to go swimming almost every night! The night we couldn’t go swimming someone pooped in the pool! True story!
Mamie got a little homesick though! But it was still really fun!!
I wish you were here!
Love, Emma!!!!
Now aren’t we all wishing we could have been at girl scout camp!!!!!!!!!! (And aren’t the young mothers using the sweetest names these days??? Her other best friend (besides Mamie) is Mavis!!!!!!!!!!)
*The Gershwins were definitely not farmers, or they wouldn’t have penned the lines, “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…”
How ’bout peaches and cream for supper? That’s makes the livin’ sound a whole heap easier…
Comments (6)
I loved summer camp, although I was never a girl scout. Nobody ever pooped in the pool though…that would have been really cool!!!
Older friend brought us a 25lb. box of Gordon’s peaches. They are laid out on newspaper on my kitchen floor. I just glared at them today. No energy to work them. Tomorrow I’ll make crisps…I never got the hang of pie crust although I LOVE pies and cobblers….and put some in the freezer. Do you cook yours and freeze or freeze then bake? Hope the g-kids will start eating on them too. They are yummy! Sliced some for lunch.
Wil is haying with neighbor. Neighbor does our baling for free and Wil mows ours and does all the raking on everything. Don’t know why neighbor doesn’t take Wil up on mowing more of his hay ground. Must be a male thing!?
No baby chickens or any chickens at all with Zeb around. I guess we can’t say anything. He is a bird dog!
Love Emma’s letter! What camp did she attend? Dianna was in GSs forever even after she was an adult. She LOVED even the Primitive Camping sessions. Definitely NOT her parent’s daughter.
Must have been the throw back to her Indian ancestors.
Awwww. . . Emma sounds like she is having a good time! I haven’t done a thing with peaches this year (except eat them, of course)!
Fresh peaches with ice cream, yum! Cute letter from Emma. 17 year old grandson Sam raises chickens, they are interestsing creatures…….and so is Sam. LOL
It’s been corn and tomatoes for dinner every night that we are home.
As I read about your peaches I was eating a creamy piece of durian fruit. Peaches would be nice!
For the last 7 years I have had sons living overseas, far from home. Where is your daughter living? Do you have skype? It has made a huge difference and takes a lot of the sting out of the missing.
When you write your book I will read it!