At last! The peaches are late this year in the Rogue Valley.
Here's a box of 49er peaches from the orchard on Old Stage Road. You can't get these in the grocery stores any more...they have quit growing them commercially because they don't like to travel thousands of miles to the chain stores.
I prepare them with the sugar, cinnamon & thickener so I can freeze them in a pie tin lined with foil. Then I peel off the foil and vacuum pack them for freezing so that all I have to do is pull 'em out and plop them into a pie shell. There's nothing better than a fresh peach pie served up with vanilla ice cream in the middle of winter!
Vacuum packed peaches for our 2-person King Arthur pie dish.
Wait for it, wait for it! You're driving up Angel Crest and suddenly there it is...a magnificent custom street number sign!
It's made from all materials we had on hand...the metal for the sign, the paint, the pipe and the angle iron brackets. We did purchase some spray paint (new Rustoleum 2X super coverage paint). We're waiting for the City of Medford to knock on our door and ask if we're a B & B, in which case we'd need a business license! 
We purposely put the "MANOR' part of the sign in a light color as it is our joke on ourselves. We have been calling this place "Angel Crest Manor" as tongue in cheek since it is a little rancher. "To the manor born" and all that.
We were without air conditioning for 5 days. The air conditioning part of the heat pump quit. We called on Monday and they got to us on Friday! For around $200 and a couple of parts...the capacitor and the points, we are in the cool again. Luckily the temps this summer have been moderate (in the low 90's) and all that new insulation in the attic has paid off. The house never got above 78 degrees. Turns out that when we replace the heat pump furnace portion this fall, they can convert this outside unit to work as an air conditioner with the new high efficiency gas forced air furnace. So our repairs will pay off.
Rubbermaid strikes again! This building is 4.8' square for $399 from Lowes. It's another block checked in our quest to have all our stuff under cover before winter.
Our final storage building was a snap to assemble and holds all the garden equipment including the mower, pressure washer, mini-tiller, spreader & weed wacker. I may even be able to sneak in a few rarely used but necessary implements and some lawn fertilizers.
This frees up the big Canadian storage building that we moved over from Grey Eagle Drive for the important stuff, like Fiat parts, etc. with no more tripping around the lawn mower.
A nice piece of plywood goes over the blocks. We coated it liberally with waterseal. Then we assembled the plastic floor and secured it to the wood on top of the blocks.
We hauled in some gravel to neaten it up.
