Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Everything was just "Peachy"

Sunday afternoon the six of us took a drive to the Green Bluff area, just north of Spokane. This area is filled with dozens of different orchards that offer fresh peaches, apples and all kinds of fruits and vegetables. If I were a vegetarian, this would be pure heaven for me! We headed to the first orchard that was having a peach festival, hoping to replenish the dwindling supply of fresh peaches that we had bought in Columbia Falls.
Gary looked pretty chipper as he stepped out of his jeep. Little did he know that this first stop was one of MANY! Each fruit/vegetable stop had something else to offer.
Sandy waited patiently as Jerry paid for their peaches. At least she knows where he is at this point. All of us know that he has a unique ability of disappearing where ever we go! One minute he is there....and the next minute he is gone! He's not a fast mover, but somehow he seems to blend in where he's at. Maybe he was a chameleon in some other life......
At the second stop, all of us wound our way to the wine tasting section. It was at the back of the store, way in the corner, yet we all managed to wind up at this spot. Here we are, gathered around the young lady who was dispensing "fruit of the vine"! She was a very popular person that day. We all wound up buying a bottle. It is our civic duty to support the local economy in every place we go.
At our next stop we could go out and pick our own vegetables. These zucchinis were only $1.00 each! I should have gotten one. Two of them could have made a meal for all six of us! We would have been eating zucchini for a week. I like them, but NOT that much!
Somehow, someone in our group decided they wanted rhubarb pie. I told them if they would pick it, I would make the pie. Yep, it wasn't long before all of us were out in the field, looking for stalks of rhubarb under the huge leaves.
This is where Sherry said, "Here's a good one!"
I was the official collector of rhubarb stalks. They just kept picking and picking. I guess at 89 cents a pound, it was a real good deal.
Two days later, this is where the rhubarb wound up (along with some fresh cherries). This was the first time I had made a pie in the 5th wheel trailer. There isn't much room to roll out dough, that's for sure!
Another view, only part of the Cherry Rhubarb pie is missing.....what happened?
Guess you know by now!

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