IT WAS A REAL PEACH OF A PARTY!!!

No ... seriously, it really was! This past Sunday, Bruce and I went to a little wingding for a good friend of ours who was having one of those Big birthdays!

This guy has been crazy about peaches since he was just a little kid. In fact he just completed a cholesterol lowering diet where he ate oatmeal with peaches on top for six months. SIX months!!!
 
So his wife figured she'd whip him up a peachy birthday bash out in the country at a Pick-Your-Own Peach Farm. It was a wonderful day, we all relaxed after she put us to work picking our own juicy party favors ... a basket of the freshest, most aromatic  peaches ever!

Belgian Peche Beer

 
Next she served us up ice cold bottles of something called Lambic Belgian Peche, which translates into a pretty darn good peach beer. We had a nice meal and finished everything off with an amazing cheesecake. Yes, of course it was peach!


After that we took a tour around the place. Only one couple had been to a peach orchard before. They grew up in the South. The rest of us were all transplants.
So assuming you've probably never been to a Peach Party, come along for a quick tour of your own . . .

The original peach stand is right off the road. Reminded me of Route 66 back in the day.

Our own basket wasn't quite so full, but looked just as delicious!

These were picked pretty clean before we arrived. Never knew peach trees were so low & bushy

Mother Nature's perfect peach ... almost looks artificial!

Rustic-looking building used for Weddings, parties, etc.

Rear deck area is where we had our Peach Party Ѽ

The Farm also lets you pick your own blueberries and blackberries.

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All I want to know is why somebody would put pepper on their Oatmeal and peaches???

My New Favorite Gemstone . . .

The All Natural, All-American Gemstone

Oregon Sunstone!

In the rugged high desert of south central Oregon, embedded in ancient volcanic lava under the sage brush and grass . . .

. . . lies Oregon Sunstone.

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This is really, really unusual material. There's nothing like it available anywhere else in the world, and I can't get enough of the unique metallic glitter that comes from the patterns of copper inside of this gem. And don't get me started on how transparent it is!

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Peachy- pinks, pale with a lot of schiller, sunstone has a beautiful soft ethereal look to it.

It's gorgeous, it glows.

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Sunstone comes in a range of colors: clear, a very pale yellow, pinks, peaches, spinel red, green, and the most rare, blue green.

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Some stones are bicolored or tricolored. Sunstone is also a color change stone and is different colors under different lights, and can change colors with different angles.


A lot of jewelry lovers haven't heard about this amazing gem, but a savvy designer recognizes a good thing when she/he sees it.

Personally, I want everybody to know about Oregon sunstone . . .

I'm on a mission!