Tonight we go to see NIN in NJ. Skogafoss loves seeing this band and over the years I've learned to appreciate them more and more. While I find Trent very strange and odd, I do find that I do like the music.

Well today we were supposed to go to dinner with someone else, but luckily for us, it was cancelled.

So Skogafoss got to play with more baking. She tweaked the recipe a bit more, this time adding peach schnapps to the peach juice to see if that would give more "peach" flavor. It didn't.

Skogafoss' mom came over to peel and slice since I wasn't interested in doing so.

prepped for flash freezing


the aftermath of peeling


today's muffins







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Okay, we got alot of freakin' peaches, we still have about 15lbs of peaches left. There is still alot to cut and freeze. We've got a full schedule this week and we leave for Las Vegas on Saturday. I'm not sure how we're going to manage this.

Tonight for dinner, I made stuffed bell peppers and stuffed tomatoes, ground beef and rice, topped with feta cheese. The bell peppers were picked from the same farm that we went to get peaches.

Over the past two days Skogafoss has been making lots of peach centered products. Sorbet, jam, and 2 different kinds of muffins. The first were good, but the second were better. She made some changes to the recipe and the 2nd batch came out better than the first, less dense, less fatty, and overall more moist.

she changed the recipe a little:
1 cup of peach juice instead and 1/4 cup oil, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, cooks for 17 minutes
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This weekend we decided to try out luck at picking peaches. It's right in the middle of peach picking season, so we thought we'd try our hand at it. We tried a number of years ago in Long Island. It was a debacle because we got there so late that there were no peaches left and it was packed with lots of kids and stupid adults.

So this year we went to New Jersey and had 2 farms to go to in northern NJ.

What a bounty we got! We picked up 30lbs of peaches and some 2lbs of peppers.

Skogafoss is made peach sorbet and peach jam today. Right now she's baking some peach muffins. This morning I had peaches with my rice krispies. Yesterday I had frozen blueberries from blueberry picking in Maine.





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It seems that I've had a discussion lined up for Skogafoss for some time now. It is centered around our finances and just what is going to or what should happen. I guess you can call it a plan.

Skogafoss has been digging her heels in as a new director has taken over for her old boss. She's got some new direction and fire, but still she's overworked and dislikes what is happening around her.

I'm very nervous as the economy is taking a complete shit, that the cash we used for the investment house would have been better saved in case of layoffs and other economic downturn doom and gloom. So I've got more respite for my own selfish desires.

But last night, as we laid down to sleep, we lie in the darkness and I felt a dampness hit my cheek.

She was weeping. When I asked her what was the matter she said nothing.

I pressed on for a bit longer, and she finally broke telling me that it's the same stuff, she's too scared...