Happy Labor Day!

The "unofficial" last day of summer is here and I'm already missing it. The pool closed today so we went for our last swim this afternoon. It was kind of neat, almost every member was there so it was like a big party, we all said our goodbyes and promised to come back next year. This morning we went peach picking with my mom. It started out good, we had planned on only picking enough to eat for the week but we got a little carried away and picked also 30 pounds. Hey, at least we got the discounted rate, lol! When we got home we added the peaches to the big pile of apples and pears that I picked from my parents tree last night. Now I just have to figure out what I want to do with it all. I made apple dumplings for dinner tonight (Yes, it's a Pa Dutch thing, where else can you eat apple dumplings for dinner and not get looked at funny?) and I have peach muffins cooling as we speak. The pears will last longer than the peaches so I think I may make some peach sauce tomorrow. Mmm, it's really good heated up and poured over vanilla ice cream in the middle of winter. I may have to actually buy apples this year. My parents have three trees and none of them look too good yet. I usually make a crock pot full of applesauce to freeze and I'm not sure I'll even get enough apples to do that. I checked the trees last night when I was picking for dumplings and it looks like the deer have been busy eating them already. Oh well, I'm sure the girls will be excited about going back to the orchard to pick apples.