Another Week Gone

Wow, time flies when with school and work. Last Saturday (9/6) Mike and I rode our bikes down to Julia Davis Park to walk around Art in the Park. On our way we stopped at the Fire Fighter Memorial.

As soon as we arrived Mike hit the Pronto Pup vendor for his first corn dog. Shortly after we ran into our good friend Susie and spent the next couple of hours wandering all of the booths together. I found a really cool bracelet made out of a fork.
After Art in the Park, we biked over to Qwest Arena for The Taste of Idaho. It wasn't a big venue, but we enjoyed a variety of free food samples and tasted some delicious wines. There were so many free handouts that both of my bike baskets were full of fresh produce and other goodies. Mike worked on Sunday and I went for a 16 mile walk with a friend and her mother in law who are training for the 3 day breast cancer walk. I spent the rest of Sunday grocery shopping and prepping for this week of school
Monday a group of us drove out to Greenleaf Idaho to pick fresh peaches. We had a great time wandering the orchard and luckily didn't run into any snakes! Mike and I came home with two five gallon buckets of peaches.

Mike & Theron in the orchard

The crew, minus Theron L-R: Christina, Donyell, D, Stephanie, Mike, Susie, & NicoleD making a stretch for a good peach

Stephanie searching out the good ones

Mike showing off his loot
Tuesday I had school all day and then came home and made a fresh peach pie for Mike and his crew. This was the final product. The glorious pie

Wednesday I got up early and followed my regular routine of going to the gym, getting ready there, and heading to work. I arrived at work only to find out I had been put on call, so I headed back home. Mike came home from work with a couple of treasures. The first was a gym bag, not worthy of a photo, but this.....I couldn't believe it. Apparently a school had made a pillow case for each of the guys at Eagle Fire. I love this one, the truck cracks me up. Later in the morning Mike and I went to work on our peaches and we were about 15 minutes away from being done with our peach jam and what do you know, but work called me in.

The jam

Cassius checking in to see if there is anything he can help with

Mike has never canned, but he was able to finish up the hot water bath and all the jars came out beautifully. It was a busy day and now that I am home from work I am beat. Mike was awesome and had dinner waiting for me so I could eat, study, and then watch a movie.