Millions of peaches, peaches for me...

Earlier this week, I found a farm near my house selling fresh peaches from the orchard for $.75/lb. We had to go pick them but ended up getting them for .50/lb. because the gal was so nice. So I've spent a few days bottling peaches. To my surprise, Maxine was a big help. She'd bring me the peaches, I'd boil them and transfer them to the ice bath and then she'd slip the skins off. She probably cut my workload by 1/3. So here we are with the finished product: 2 quarts and 7 pints of beautiful, yummy peaches.
Maxine also wrote the date on the lids.

Yummmmmmmm...

A lot of my jars are mismatched because I bought them used in Enterprise. An old lady had died and her kids were cleaning out her basement. Shelves and shelves of bottled food, most of which had gone bad, lined her entire basement. I think I got them for a nickle a piece. The only bummer was emptying the bottles and cleaning them out. I was pregnant at the time and I gagged over the sink while I emptied bottle after bottle of rotten tomatoes. The upside was the price and some of the jars are really vintage with fun impressions on the side. I have a bunch of Atlas mason jars and others just say 'mason' with a big stars on the side.

And Juliet LOVES shoes. These are some of Maxine's old shoes and if they ever fall off, she has a fit.


And the other day, Merril uttered some of the sexiest words a man can whisper to his wife: "I got a babysitter for Friday at 7:00." Yeah! So we rode motorcycles into town for dinner. Then I wanted to just ride around for a while so we rode out to the resevoir and stopped on a side road. Since we were far from town, the stars were fantastic. We were looking up for a while, until my neck was tired so I decided to lay on the road. Merril got my motorcycle jacket and laid it under our heads. So we laid there and stargazed for probably a half hour. We saw 2 shooting stars and then rode home. It was a great little date. It reminded me of the days before we had loads of kids sleeping at home.