What do you do with tree after tree of beautiful fruit? We have been giving them away to neighbors and Starbucks folks. I canned all of the apricots.. the only very small harvest of the year. The Bonanza peaches produced a bumper crop. The tree underwent a renovation this summer so that it will be more stable, but with fewer peaches. The Nectarine tree totally outraced expectations this year or any previous year. There are people that prefer nectarines to peaches. Jam was made with the majority of this crop. And then there has been this marvelous white peach tree, the sugar lady. It produces super sugary peaches without very much acid. I have been peeling and putting at least of bag of these in the freezer every day. Today and Yesterday I had just short of three quarts of these so I made some premade peach pie filling. It will when it is unthawed have the tapioca, lime juice and the sugar already to go. I think that I will not unthaw them just dump them into a pie crust and let them slowly unthaw as the pie crust bakes.. It may be the hit of the Thanksgiving.. I have been given the order.. no more chocloate cakes.. Grandma always gets stuck with them and face the dilemma as to how much can they eat within their dietary restrictions. Dad is a huge fan of deep chocolate cake.. so why shouldn't he be able to eat it.
The big pluot tree has yet to get ripe. The 5 in one is cranking out fruit like crazy. It had the first of the ripe front yard fruit in the year. It produced about 30 Flavor supreme fruit. The next one is the dinosaur egg variety. There is another creamy yellow one to follow. The big tree has the green variety. It is based on the green gage plum. That is one that everyone likes.
I bought a new camera today.. It is a cannon powershot 790. At Costco for $269. It seems to have all the bells and whistles but as dad says you don't have to deal with them if you don't want to. Its a 10 pixels that captures photos at 180 dpi. That was my big gripe on the Olympus.. currently lost.. that it would carry a 10 megapixel but it would shoot at 72 dpi.. great for web dpi but not so good for prints. I also got a 4 gb sdhc chip at Costco for 38 dollars. It even came with a usb disk reader that resembles a cruiser card. It sits vertically into my usb2 hub. Pretty cool.
Sue and I are finally tackling the house. Things have been lost for so long in buckets it is about time to debucket this house. Have a great day.
Pat
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I think the chocolate cake thing is pure bluster. She yanked that cake out of Reza's hands at the Woolgrower! (well, maybe not YANKED) ::laugh:::
10 mega pixels! sheeesh! You could make BILLBOARDS from that!
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