Beach Vacations, Peach Preserves and other Summer Goodies
Today is my first day back after a week at the beach with my family. Time sure flies when you are having fun. We wait all year for a vacation and the time goes so slow but when you get to the beach, it is over before you are ready. We stopped in Alabama to buy peaches so that we could make peach preserves again this year. Last year was our first year after Miss Nancy, who works for Burns, showed my daughter Joy and I how to make them. Since then we have made plum and strawberry. I have seven boxes of wonderful Alabama peaches just waiting to get a little more ripe and we will get started on the peach preserves. If you haven’t read my blog about Crisco baby, it was an accounting of how my then 1 year old grandaughter got a bottle of Crisco and poured it in the kitchen floor while we were preoccupied with the making the preserves. We will be sure to put the bottle of Crisco higher up in the pantry and out of her reach. She is soon to be two years old and is certainly living up to the terrible two reputation according to her Mother. For me, anything she does is pretty much O.K. How can anything that cute be irritating?
Speaking of all things summer, my husband Ken, is very pleased with himself because he had ripe tomatoes before the 4th of July. He does have a knack for growing things. He has a coffee plant that actually has coffee beans on it and last summer he grew a pineapple that was small but big enough to cut and have a few pieces. Keep in mind that we live in East Tennessee, not too far from the Great Smoky Mountains. If you have never visited the Smoky Mountains, this is a good time. It is the 75th year celebration of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The most visited national park in the USA.
