Finally, finally did something with the peaches I had bought last week.  Monday I'm going to buy some pears for Curt.  I was a little disappointed.  The peaches ripened fine, but they were all grainy and mealy in texture.  I just decided to use them all up in sauces and can them.  So, I made peach sauce and peach chutney and I have my dehydrator full of peaches.  Tomorrow I pick apples.    Sadly though, I missed out on the plums.  Every time I wanted to get out and pick them, something came up and I wasn't able to go.  When I finally went they were all gone.

I do have black walnuts drying on the roof though and a few hazel nuts that I found growing along a hay field near my sister's house.  If anyone is in the mood to come help me crack walnuts...anyone?  anyone?

I also have a big bag of wild chamomile I picked this summer.  I was debating whether or not I was going to be able to use it all up as tea or not.  Then saw a recipe online for chewy apple-chamomile cookies.  I was thinking, why the hell not?  How about in a cake? Bread?  Well!?  I have a freezer now.  My options are endless.  I wonder what lavender would taste like with blueberries...

I am dreading winter.  I suppose because we don't have a furnace in at all yet.  they said it would be in by the end of October...but mostly because I am scared to death of being trapped in this house with no one to talk to. This is such an "old" town, but I still talk to people around me.  No one is my age, but at the same time, its kind of fun to stand out and talk on the sidewalk...when winter hits, all the old people will be hidden inside and I'll be all alone.  I know, I sounds whiny and cryptic.  I will be as alone as I want to be, but like I said...no one my own age.  This walking down and having a beer with my husband once or twice a week is nice.  It helps.  A person can only take so much husband though...

Dean has his driver's license now.  Just need to get him a car and we are done, done, done.  I think Christmas will be easy this year.  Just buy him crazy car seat covers and floor mats and a emergency kit.  A gas card in his stocking...

I think the butterfly's are dead.  They never hatched out of their chrysalis' and the one that did hatch, did it 2 weeks ago and its wings never unfolded.  I'll take my refund in the form of a new neighbor my own age and similar interests :)

I have to say though, there is a friend of mine that I have recently gotten together with after many years of estrangement and it has been really quite nice.  When we were younger, we were friends, but only sort-of friends.  We weren't at all close and we spent a lot of time pissing eachother off and dissing each other behind each other's back...I can't really say I cared one way or the other if we ever saw each other again.  But we did and it has been really nice.  I think we both have grown up a lot over the years and the last 2 times we were together it was a very nice visit and I actually really look forward to more.  It's funny.   Our husbands get along well too.  We both love coffee and wine and sitting around visiting.  We have similar decorating styles...We never did when we were kids.  I thought she was such a bitch most of the time.  Weird, but kind of awesome.  Maybe this is the answer to my need-for-friends-my-own-age-living-close problem...I've been overlooking it because I'm busy being selfish and whiny.

 Maybe God does actually give you what you need once in a while :) Heh...