Look what I can do Ma!

Nothing like being in a new town and not knowing any body and having your husband gone on business to motivate you to bottle up some peaches.  Yeah, I did it all by myself for the first time and they actually sealed...hope they taste good.

As a side note: There is this heavenly spot in our new town where we love to escape when ever we feel overwhelmed with adjusting to a new place.  The kiddos and I load up and go to Kruse Farms and when we are there the world seems better and we always leave a bit happier (and with loads of fresh produce).  And that is where I got these wonderful (very cheap) peaches.  Such a magical place...and I may have got a little carried away when I bought TWO boxes of peaches...so I made peach syrup...and peach strawberry jam...and there are two big bags of frozen peaches in my freezer...and I still have more.

Anyone have a good recipe with peaches???

Our big, big, very grand Chair Project!

Way back last winter I noticed our neighbor (Santa Claus--no really, Santa was our neighbor), anyway I saw Santa putting some seatless chairs out in the alley for the garbage man.  So I ran out and asked if I could have them...took an outline of the seat back to Idaho and my sweet angel father cut us out some pressed wood seats.  Then this summer Evus got a sander for his birthday (did I have my own sinister purposes in getting him this gift?  yes I did)  and we began sanding down each chair...and months and months later, piles of sand paper later...stiff hand joints later we stained and lacquered them.  One of our first projects in our new apartment was putting some material and padding on these bad boys and now they are a finished project (love that!)  Presenting our dining room chairs...and for any of our friends who regularly visited our dining room in North Platte--you know what a great improvement these are from our old ones :-)