the boxes are in the garage, hopefully cool enough to keep. to wait until my procrastination streak ends. you see, the man at the fruit stand told me that I needed to can these within days... i have a few boxes. i have little incentive to start.
we just got back from a quick trip to visit my mom at the cabin in eastern washington. there were a few dissapointments along the way- including missing her as she was on her way to the other side of the state, called to a forest fire in Goldendale. we said a brief goodbye as she left and we entered Okanogan County at 2:30am. my idyllic hopes of walks in the forest, recipe swapping, peach canning, and time with her blazed away as some forest fire in south central wash. blazed on. (if you haven't guessed it yet, she is a forest fire fighter with her fiance who specializes in the seasonal work as they use their engine, EngineJoe, to enter at the initial attack and clean up stages of the damaging fires.) however, we had one day in the sun before we made the long trek back home and made the much anticipated stop in Orondo, Wa. to buy peaches peaches peaches. i was in search of the perfect stand, and settled upon
Lone Pine Fruit, one of my favorite stops in the past. after smelling endless amounts of handmade soaps, expensive candles, ogled at the homemade pies and sampled the season's first peaches, we finally settled on these three varities for canning:
Contender (gigantic globes of peachiness),
Early Elberta (pale, beautiful, peachy little ones) and
Angles (a nice, firm, middle of the road peach).
we just got back from a quick trip to visit my mom at the cabin in eastern washington. there were a few dissapointments along the way- including missing her as she was on her way to the other side of the state, called to a forest fire in Goldendale. we said a brief goodbye as she left and we entered Okanogan County at 2:30am. my idyllic hopes of walks in the forest, recipe swapping, peach canning, and time with her blazed away as some forest fire in south central wash. blazed on. (if you haven't guessed it yet, she is a forest fire fighter with her fiance who specializes in the seasonal work as they use their engine, EngineJoe, to enter at the initial attack and clean up stages of the damaging fires.) however, we had one day in the sun before we made the long trek back home and made the much anticipated stop in Orondo, Wa. to buy peaches peaches peaches. i was in search of the perfect stand, and settled upon Lone Pine Fruit, one of my favorite stops in the past. after smelling endless amounts of handmade soaps, expensive candles, ogled at the homemade pies and sampled the season's first peaches, we finally settled on these three varities for canning: Contender (gigantic globes of peachiness), Early Elberta (pale, beautiful, peachy little ones) and Angles (a nice, firm, middle of the road peach).
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