Wha-whaaaat?

[angledge]

hotpantsgalore started a peach stand last weekend. She bought a tent shelter, a folding table, a cooler (for drinks for sale), some signs ("FREDERICKSBURG PEACHES"), & 5 half-bushels of peaches. Then she found a place in front of an out of business Chuck E. Cheese & started selling. 20 half-bushel boxes & 2 days later, she had paid off her initial investment, made a few hundred bucks, & gotten bitten by the Peach Bug.

Now she's waking up early (WHAT?), negotiating deals directly with the peach orchards, hiring former classmates, & opening up one, maybe two new stands for this weekend. My fiance now has scheduled to purchase 50 half-bushels of peaches for the weekend. At about 65 peaches per half-bushel box, that's over 3,000 peaches.

I, on the other hand, have been banished to East Texas, where the high temperature today hit 106 degrees F. Working on a former creosote treatment pit, basking in the mothball smell of naphthalene, I caught myself thinking a few times, Man, a fresh peach sure would taste great right now....

In other news, I had chicken-fried steak for dinner & it was not entirely awful.

Comments

[bad-latin.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I've ever had chicken-fried anything. What a terrible Southerner I make.

I, too, think a fresh peach would taste great right now. Cheers to hpg and success to her all throughout peach season!

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Have you ever had fried chicken? That's chicken-fried chicken.

[bad-latin.livejournal.com]

Ha! I suppose it is!

Oh, now I want some homemade fried chicken and mashed potatoes. *drools*

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

Um, does she need permits and other official paperwork for that? :S

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, this is Texas. You don't need a permit to do anything.

[krick.livejournal.com]

Peaches are hairy. Nectarines are where it's at.

And, no, this isn't thinly-veiled sexual innuendo.

Millions of peaches!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

PEACHES COME INSIDE A CAN!
THEY WERE PUT THERE BY A MAN
IN A FACTORY DOWNTOWN

IF I HAD MY LITTLE WAY
I'D EAT PEACHES EVERY DAY
SUN SOAKING BULGES IN THE SHADE

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[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

anytime ANYBODY says the word Peaches, I can't go any further without at least mumbling "Peaches come from a can."

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[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

At least we're not alone in our idiosyncrasy.

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[marasca.livejournal.com]

Why did RockBand teach me the words to Lump instead of this song? I never knew that last line there.

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[angledge.livejournal.com]

HPG has woken up a couple of mornings humming this tune.

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[bad-latin.livejournal.com]

I heard that song a lot in high school, in pieces here and there, and thought, "Canned peaches? What a stupid, boring idea for a song. Ho hum." Then, much later, I finally heard more of the lyrics and was like "JESUS THIS IS FILTHY"

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[krick.livejournal.com]

Speaking of "peach" songs, This song below is one of my guilty pleasures. I prefer the shorter single version (without the extra bit in the middle) but this was the best copy I could find on YouTube. It's a definite earworm...

[marasca.livejournal.com]

This is, uh, rather unexpected. Cool, but unexpected.

Dare I ask what happens when peach season is over?

(I was pleased to see peaches at the farmers market this evening, and had one for dessert! Like Krick, I don't like the fuzz so I peel them. I prefer nectarines, but they're harder to find outside of the grocery store.)

[angledge.livejournal.com]

We will sell the peach stand (minus the signs) to a couple of interested buyers, who will use it for other produce seasons (berries, corn, pumpkins, etc.)

We're also thinking about just keeping it. A pop-up tent & a folding table? Both of those are useful to have around.