We had the most awesome day Friday. It started out very early for me. I went to work at 5:30 a.m. so I could take a half day off to go out to Sauve's Island to get our peaches this year. I am fortunate to be able to do that sometimes. Scott's business was closed for the weekend and he had the time off. The temperature was supposed to get up to 100º or more. We don't have days like that very often, glad to be able to take advantage of it. We were fortunate to be able to enjoy this summer day while it was here. Lucky thing too, Saturday and Sunday were both cloudy days. We slowly meandered our way to Sauve's Island stopping a few times to hike around and take some photos along the way. It did get up to 105º at one point, but we didn't notice it so much as we found plenty of places to grab some shade.
When we got out to the Island the sun was at it's highest, we stopped to take some photos of some very impressive cabbage and took advantage of the sprinklers.
In the 23 years we've lived in the pacific northwest, this is only the second time we've explored Sauve's Island. There were some beautiful and creative farms. I especially enjoyed the farm with all the old trucks turned into planters. There was a blue one, a red one, a yellow one, and a white one. There was other old farm equipment with gorgeous flowers everywhere you looked.
We found an organic farm, Bella Organic Farm and ordered our peaches before we arrived. They had ten boxes of fresh picked peaches waiting for us. That's 200 pounds, eighty for me, eighty for Rachel, and forty for Ruth. We'll can about half of them, freeze some, and dehydrate some. I like peach cobbler in November. We picked up some other items in the farm store and explored the grounds. They've got a HUGE corn maze. The friendly woman at the store gave us tickets for their Blackberry Bluegrass and Country Harvest Festival on Labor Day weekend. It looks like fun, we do like outdoor music festivals. They've got a pretty impressive corn maze as well as a hay maze for the kid's. We saw one of the employee's making many scarecrows and dressing them up for the big opening of the corn maze. I think it might be a good trip with Kaylee.
We ended the day out at Willow Grove delivering the two boxes of peaches Ruth & Mike wanted for their CSA shares this weekend. We stopped at the beach to take in just a little bit more sunshine.
And those peaches... were canned the very next day.
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