EVERYTHING'S PEACHY ...

It's summer - depending where you live, this may bring a smile to your face, or the other option (which is the category we fall into) the amount of laundry you have to do has doubled due to the fact that everyone needs to wear more than 1 shirt a day, because it's just so blisteringly hot!!!It's not all bad though, with summer comes an abundance of different fruits - raspberries, blueberries, peaches to name but a few. We have a peach orchard not too far from us, that we try to go to at least once every summer .... I can tell you with confidence that there'll be more than one visit this year. A friend of mine and all of our kids, plus Girl Childs BFF, headed out there last week .... it was lovely:-D

We all headed out buckets in hand ....

We climbed the trees .... why is it that the best peaches are always at the top of the peach tree? I'm going to just sneak in here and tell you, that the orchard did have plenty of ladders scattered throughout, for the very task of reaching those peaches, but hey, what fun is that to a 10 year old boy, especially when those peach trees are just so climbable!!!

We picked perfect peaches ....

We had little taste stops along the way .... as it was explained to me - "How do you know what you're buying mom, if you don't let me check it out first?" A pretty logical question. The verdict of the the taste test ...... "you can buy them mom, just buy lots":-D

Then once we had filled our buckets, we got to sit a while under the shade of a huge tree, and slurped down cups of ice cold lemonade, and enjoyed bowls of tasty - infact lets make that EXTREMELY tasty - peach ice cream. Yummy !!!!

It was a fun day, and once home, I got busy ....

Yes ... 6 little jars of golden jammy goodness :-D

It has become a love affair with jam making, I can't get enough of it!!! I bought apricots yesterday .... apricot jam will be next. I'll have most of my neighbor/friend Christmas gifts made by the end of summer:-D

We also got to gobble down a yummy peach crumble for dessert (the pictures of this were too blurry to post). Usually I find fruit crumbles too sweet, this one however, was just the right mix of tart and sweet ... very yummy:-D

We'll be going back to the orchard for another visit, that's for sure. I've also just learned that there's a Pick Your Own Lavender Farm not too far from the orchard ..... hmm, I guess a stop in there may just be in order ...