Whew, what a week!!!
Where do I start. We ended up out the door late last Friday, for a long weekend away. We headed toward Coloma, Michigan which is a little north of St. Joe/Benton Harbor. There is a nice KOA campground there that we stayed at last year.
It was a great weekend away. We had time to play games, swim and just be together. One major together moment was picking peaches. We went back to the same farm as last year and in a little over an hour, picked 7 bushels of peaches. No, not all were for us. We had orders for a bushel from each grandma and the neighbor requested two bushels for her family. We also found a wonderful free township park on Lake Michigan. The kids spent two days in the lake, having a great time.
We went into St. Joe on Sunday afternoon and discovered a free community orchestra concert on the shore. It was terrific and a special thing for the kids to experience.
All in all, daddy and mommy were pretty sad to see this weekend come to an end. We face the fact that summer is getting away from us. The kids head back to school in less than a week!!
So home on Tuesday, sorting peaches, and got right to them. I have 21 quarts of peaches that I canned, then Suzanna did another 7 on her own. I froze fillings for 8 pies, had about 4 quarts of sliced to put in the freezer, managed to eat sliced peaches on ice cream twice and made a huge cobbler with the last of them yesterday.
Next up, more relish, the tomatoes are just starting and I am thinking about getting some corn from the local orchard next week.
Scroll down to see pictures of our weekend.
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