Summer fruits and an early harvest

The other day Jeff decided that he wanted a peach cobbler for dessert... so I said I would make one. He then said something about checking to see if we had a yellow cake mix to make it... Well, I don't know much about peach cobbler, never having made one before, but the one thing I did know was that there was no cake mix involved! He insisted there was, I laughed him to scorn, and the next thing I knew we were having a cobbler contest, which was scheduled for Sunday night.

I made mine, he made his (and proved in the process that it can indeed be done with a yellow cake mix), Megan made hers, Kristie and Grady made theirs, and we all had peach cobbler for dessert on Sunday.



Here are all the entries - Megan won points for using fresh peaches, Grady had added nutmeg and/or cinnamon to his which made it totally yummy, and mine looked the most like a cobbler! They were all good, though!

Here's all the kids enjoying their multiple helpings of peach cobbler. We had a lot to get through! Notice the picnic table has now been stained and waterproofed, making it even more fab and the weatherproofing means that when they are all done I just hose it off. Marvellous!



Yesterday we harvested some of our vegetable garden, and pulled up the lettuce, onions and carrots. I will say nothing about the onions, apart from they were not meant to be spring onions. They were meant to be big. Moving on.... I am pleased to report that after our earlier failure with the carrots that this time we got a lot of good ones when we pulled them up. They had to go to make way for the pumpkin seeds that we planted in their spot. And we were very proud of the yellow squash and courgette (zucchini) that we picked... we have more on the vines, but these were the biggest and best!