What a wonderful week we had!  The kids arrived on Monday afternoon and left this morning at quarter to eight.  Now the house is all back in order and soooooo quiet.  We are ready to sit down for the afternoon and we both would like a little boy to sit with us.  We miss the whole family already.  We are thankful for the week we had with them.  Monday we just visited and looked at the gardens.  Tuesday we canned 6 pints of peaches and picked vegetables.  Wednesday we went to McMinnville to the farmer’s market.  Only the girls went, the boys stayed home.  We got some nice fresh vegetables for Patty to take back to Florida with her.  In the afternoon we picked and canned zucchini for Becca to take home.  Thursday Becca, Chris, Gina and the twins went to Chattanooga and went to the aquarium.  They all had a wonderful day and came home with all kinds of stories about their trip.  While they were gone we did some cooking and made some Peaches and Cream ice cream.  That was the best we have ever made!!  It is so easy with the new electric ice cream maker.  No ice to bother with and no salt.  I got it on Amazon.com.  I am a Amazon Prime Mom so get free shipping on many such things.  I love it!   This morning we got everyone packed up and lunches made for on the trip home.  Tonight they will stop in GA for two nights so the small kids get a break about half way home.  They get to swim and play in the park.  Then Sunday they finish their trip home.  Norman and I did a little house work but there wasn’t much to do, they left the house so nice.  So we picked some more peaches and canned 5 more pints.  We will pick more each day and try to get 6 or 7 pints each day until they are all done.  Inbetween we will need to watch the zucchini and can that also as we go.  I can the squash with stewed tomatoes that way when Becca opens a can she saves the stewed tomatoes for Patty to put in her soup and they eat the squash, nothing goes to waste in this family.   Oh, I forgot to mention – the peaches are perfect this year.  Not a bug in sight.  The spraying we did early really paid off.  We should have thinned the peaches though and next year we will.  Many of the peaches are falling off the tree just before they are really ripe and that is because there are three and four to a cluster and they should have only one and then the peaches should be 9 inches apart so they can stay on the tree to ripen and grown large.  Always learning something new and thank goodness there is always next year to do it right.   Joyce, I haven’t heard from you for several day.  I hope that means you are on vacation.  I do hope you are both well and enjoying the summer.  Shirley, I’ll try to write tomorrow.  Just want to let you know we are both fine and happy after enjoying our week.  Have a great day.