Up to my Arm Pits in White Peach Juice

I am nearing the end of the white peach season. Every day more peaches are hitting the ground before I have a chance to slice them up and stick them into the freezer.

The new freezer has come and it is now receiving the meat from Costco and the fruit from our front yard. Still someone has to peel the peaches and partition the meat into plastic bags to get it into the freezer.

The usual mode is to make a fresh meal or two with a Costco meal lump and then freeze the additional in the freezer. Its amazing how that practice accumulates frozen meat. I have been trying to package up tri tip strips into meal size bags. Usually we can 1 and a half strips from the package at a time. so it is sort of useless to package more in the plastic bag.

As for the fruit, I have been labeling it so that I will know which date that I picked and processed it.

My neighbor, Ramon, grew up on a peach orchard in Le Grand. Its about 9miles south west of here. I really admired my Sugar Lady peach tree. He has a young yellow peach in his backyard. We talked yesterday about how he was going to graft some of my white peach wood on to his yellow peach in the backyard. Apparently it has to be one year wood (you can tell by a change in color) and it has to have some good buds on it for grafting to produce good branching. He said that he will do it sometime in the early morning... but right now is a good time of the year.

I walked the long route today.. all the way to McKee. I got a phone message that mom and dad were not coming to the fair today.. just a little too far and hot.. etc. It would also be pretty late if they were to drive home.. or my sister would drive them home.

We have a grand opening of a super Target store in Atwater, just north of here. There were residents that fought its opening for a quite a while. There is also supposed to be a new Home Depot to open in its same complex. This decision is on hold due the the economy. If they open there, they might close the one in Merced. They have met some stiff competition in Merced with the Lowe's.

Have a great Saturday..

pat