I visited a blog the other day and the lady had posted a recipe for a Cream Peach Pie that reminded her of the pies her mother had made during the summer, using a recipe that had been her mothers. Recipe can be found here at Katie's Kitchen Garden.
That got me to thinking about making a peach pie, haven't made one in years. I used half n half instead of cream and added 1/4 tsp. each of allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon. It smelled delicious while baking and it is now cooling. I'll let you know what we think about it later.
I got out and mowed this morning, plus did a little trimming of stuff hanging over the fence into our driveway from the neighbors to the east of us. That wore me out.
I had the sprinkler going in the main garden as it is one of my days to water, and when I went to move the sprinkler to the next spot, I noticed the pump sounded different and there was no water coming out of the hose. I told DH and he came out to look at the pump and there was zero pressure. We've had some sand coming up from the well lately too, and had a feeling things weren't so good underground. We've had this well about 23 years.
So, DH headed off to get some info, and was told the bad news, our well has croaked, it's dead. Besides the well, we'll need a new pump. This is not what we wanted to hear. We'll call around to see what the going rate is, but we're not looking forward to this expense right now. I use our well for gardening. I'll use city water, which we have to pay for, and hope it won't be too bad. Since I've not done this, I don't have a clue. I only am allowed two days a week to water with the sprinklers, and I hand water when things need it. What a bummer! Another bump in the road of our life.
We need some rain, a good soaking rain. No rain in the forecast today, maybe tomorrow afternoon, if we're lucky. Right now it is 92, but with the humidity, it feels like it's 106.
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beautiful though it be,
will seem sad and dreary
and lacking in one of its most gracious features,
if it has no water.
Pierre Husson
Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL
