Eat a Peach!

Did someone forget to tell South Carolina that it's the middle of August, and that it's supposed to 1. stop raining every day and 2. be warmer than low 70's?

Last year Mama went on a field trip with me to the Apple Farm (no organic apples!  Mommy thought she had blogged about that but she can't find the post - anyway the story goes like this: preschool field trip to the apple farm and on the hayride tour, Apple Farmer asks kids if they like to eat worms with their apples?  No!  We don't want worms in our apples!  Well, good!  That's what pesticides are for!  To keep worms out of your apples!  If you want worms go get you some of them organic apples!) but they were plumb out of apples when we went (no worms, either).  In South Carolina if you want to pick some apples, you need to pick 'em in August - because it's (usually) so hot and humid down here there are only a few varieties that will actually grow and you gotta get 'em while you can!  BUT if you want to pick PEACHES?!?  You've got all glorious Summer for that!  So we opted for a bushel of peaches, and a half a peck of apples and we burned one cool Summer afternoon in August pickin' peaches and apples and chucking them at each other's heads.

Peach pickin' is fun, 'cause you can eat the peaches while you pick 'em (pesticides and all!  we're in the South, y'all! a little chemicals on your fruit puts hair on your chest and on your toes!)  There are peaches everywhere you look, and you know, we love peaches!

Hope you're loving what's left of your Summer!

Eat a Peach!

Love,

Lilly, Anna Jane and Jack