Peaches or Compost?

Yikes! Today I was forced to pick the peaches before they were ripe because the flies were taking over. As I was picking these peach colored rocks, I wondered what I would be able to do with them. I have tried the method of putting the peaches in a brown bag to ripen but that has never worked for me with any fruit.

So what did I do? I went to the web, of course! There I found a method of ripening peaches that reportedly doesn't turn the peaches into compost.

The folks at Tall Clover Farm http://tallcloverfarm.com/?p=74 say to place the peaches stem side down on a linen napkin or cotton tea towel - not a terry towel and cover with a linen napkin or tea towel. Leave and let ripen in a cool location away from the sun. Go check out their web site for complete instructions and pictures of some yummy looking peaches.

I am going to give this method a try. I will let you know if it was successful.

Pottery and Page Progress

Time to try once again to keep my blog current. I don't know how folks keep everything up to date... with blogs, facebook, myspace, twitter, on-line shops it just seems impossible. I am going to try to add just my blog back into the mix and see what happens.

Today, I won't include any photos of my current fiber projects but instead a class project. Here we are working on creating paper mache Mycenian / Philistine pottery. We have completed our study of the Mycenae and Philistines but still wanted to do the art activity.

Although we didn't use her instructions exactly, we used instructions from http://www.kid-at-art.com/htdoc/lesson37.html as as starting point.



The girls have loved the process and are anxious to complete their faux-pottery. Now if we can just finish the project so I can get them off my kitchen counters!