Barooooo!

My Booboo is missing. :cry:

Last night's sunset...

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And today's peach pie.


So I got some gorgeous peaches from the Fruit Truck that sells at Steamboat Island road, across from the school. They go to the east side of the mountains, load up and come back and sell the produce. Great stuff. Tried the trick of dropping the peaches into boiling water for one minute and then wiping off the peels. A bit messy but very effective. Not sure if it is an improvement on peeling by hand or not. Also used Martha's suggestion of freezing your lattice work crust before setting it in place. Makes it much easier to handle and it thaws quickly for sealing into the edge. I put it together on a piece of waxed paper then slide it onto a cookie sheet to go in the freezer. 20 minutes and it's ready to go on the pie. So much easier than trying to pick it up loose.

Lovin' the summer time

We're expecting a heat wave for the next week. Thankfully we have the pool to stay cool. Fresh fruit is everywhere. I've been picking the little native blackberries lately and grabbed some blueberries from the farmers market to make this Black & Blue pie. Its bubbled over and looks messy but man was it delicious!



I've some peaches waiting to be made into a pie as well. Yum!


Mr. Petey like to pose for the camera.

A low key Fourth

Daniel and I spent a gloomy day at the beach. The sun never did burn thru the marine layer. We finally got a glimpse of it as we left there and headed inland to a friends place for an evening bonfire. A pleasant day all around.


Cats stayed home. Here's a pic of Miss Gracie drowning in her own floof.


On today's agenda we have laundry and digging irises for the HIPS Sale and for my eBay sales.

Japanese iris

We only have a few JI's here, and were getting some pretty blooms for a change. These are all rescues from a ditch downtown. Most are still there blooming. I can't give them as much water as they would like so they aren't as big and showy as they could be.

F@#%$*G Cats!

So I've had these birdhouses on top of my potting bench for years and have never managed to put them out int he garden for the birdies to use, they were just kinda being decorative. This spring a pair of swallows decided to move into one of them. I was thrilled as they were eating all the wasps that usually nest all around the patio area. Sweet! I don't use the potting bench much so I stacked alot of junk and stuff on the main surface hoping to keep the cats off it.


Yesterday I went out to find the birdhouse pulled down, broken, and the nest ripped to shreds. One of the frikkin-frakken cats decided to get up there and cause havoc. Argh!! Then I clean that up and turn around and see my little iris seedling have all be uprooted by someone using the bed as a litterbox. Double Argh!! Some cat is very lucky I did not catch them in the act or they would be housebound for a few days. We have such bad cats. I am sure it was either Gracie or Peter doing both. They are permanently punished.

Strawberries...

YUM!!