A Long and Rambling Post

Last week Hubby went to Eastern Washington and brought home three boxes of peaches.  I've been eating peaches for every meal and freezing tray after tray of peaches for winter.  They are delicious.  And they were ripening fast.  So, though Hubby had just been there and though I really needed to stay home and freeze peaches we took off for Eastern Washington on Thursday evening.  Hubby had found a source for appliances for the '57 Aloha on his last visit and the seller was ready.  We looked at the calendar and decided we should make a quick trip.

 We left after work Thursday evening and once we were on the road we realized that DOT is blasting on top of Snoqualmie Pass, at eight p.m.  We decided to try to beat the clock and get over the pass before eight.  This meant no stop for dinner, pray for no traffic and GO!

Once we were past the blasting area we started to think about dinner.  We drove through Cle Elum and didn't find anything that looked good.  We like to take the back roads to Ellensburg, it's a gorgeous drive.  When we got to the Red Horse Diner we were hungry.  But it was worth the wait.  It's a great little diner filled with memorabilia and it has yummy burgers.

 We tried their local IPA and it was a winner.

 Anytime I can watch beef cattle grazing, I'm pretty happy.  We finally got to George, visited a bit and went to bed.

 Friday morning we had coffee with Hubby's Mom and then went to do some picking and harvesting.  Okay, so the trailer doesn't look like much.  It's going to become a duck blind so that is why the appliances could be sold to us.

I didn't realize that we were getting a sink too.  I did a happy dance.  It's all cleaned up now and the pump works.

 The ice box still had its instruction manual inside.  Squeal!

We got everything in the Element, went back to the farm, showered, took Mom for lunch and then hit the road.  Since we still had a little room in the Element we stopped in Thorp and bought peaches for my folks and one more box for us.

We took I-90 all the way into Seattle, where we met Sam and Angela for dinner.  We went to Vons 1000 Spirits on First Ave.  I took one lousy pic.  It was fun to be downtown on the Friday night of Seafair with all of the Coast Guard and Navy guys walking around in their dress uniforms.  We had a nice visit with Sam and Angela and then drove home.

 The sunset on Friday evening was crazy gorgeous so it was a pretty drive.

 I was looking at Pinterest on the way home too.  Ooh, I can not wait to decorate the '57 Aloha.  Peaches!

 Millions of peaches, peaches for me.  Peel, slice, freeze on a tray, break up and bag them, repeat...

 We had a rustic peach tart on Saturday evening.

 And the figs are ripe so I need to make fig jam.

 If you want some figs, send me a message.  They are particularly nice this year.  It is a u-pick situation.

I'm off to clean my new stove and ice box and yes, freeze more peaches.  It's just peachy here!